1 debhelper (3.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Clean up old substvars.debhelper files, although debhelper doesn't
4 generate them now, it used to and they may still be lurking in build
6 * Fixed a typo. Closes: #106532
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:04:21 -0400
10 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Typo, Closes: #104405
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
16 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
22 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
24 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
28 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
34 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
40 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
43 change it in debhelper v4..
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
47 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
53 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
55 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
56 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
60 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
63 is not essential. Closes: #100430
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
67 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
73 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
76 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
77 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
78 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
79 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
80 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
81 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
82 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
83 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
84 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
85 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
86 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
87 prefixed with ".debhelper")
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
91 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
94 look just like shared libs, but are not.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
98 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
105 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
108 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
109 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
110 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
111 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
112 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
113 program those options go to. So, for example,
114 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
115 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
116 something complex. Closes: #89311
117 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
121 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
124 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
125 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
126 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
130 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
133 through loop. Closes: #98598
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
137 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Missing semi-colon.
140 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
141 this (dh_* should be called, really).
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
145 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
148 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
149 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
150 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
154 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
157 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
158 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
162 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
165 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
169 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
172 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
173 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
177 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
180 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
181 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
182 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
186 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
189 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
190 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
191 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
195 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
198 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
202 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
208 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Typo, Closes: #92407
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
214 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
220 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
226 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
229 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
233 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
235 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
236 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
237 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
238 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
239 followed. Closes: #85483
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
243 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
245 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
246 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
247 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
251 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
254 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
255 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
256 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
257 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
258 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
259 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
260 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
261 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
262 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
263 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
264 Closes: #88464, #77743
265 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
266 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
267 us to deal with that gracefully.
268 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
270 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
271 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
272 a while, Closes: #51225
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
276 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
282 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
285 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
289 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
293 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
298 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
301 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
302 don't make packlist files.
303 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
304 debhelper coding standards.
305 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
306 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
310 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
313 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
317 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
320 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
321 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
322 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
323 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
324 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
325 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
326 but is mildly deprecated.
327 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
328 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
329 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
330 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
331 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
332 switching to statoverrides..
333 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
334 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
335 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
336 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
337 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
338 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
340 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
341 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
342 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
343 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
344 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
345 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
346 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
347 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
348 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
350 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
351 variable names, pod man pages).
352 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
353 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
354 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
355 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
356 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
357 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
358 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
362 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
368 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
375 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
377 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
378 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
382 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
384 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
385 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
386 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
390 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
392 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
393 they were previously ignored.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
397 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
399 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
400 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
404 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
406 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
407 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
408 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
412 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
414 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
418 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
420 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
421 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
425 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
427 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
428 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
429 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
430 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
431 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
432 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
433 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
434 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
435 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
436 it is an obsolete program.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
440 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
442 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
446 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
450 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
452 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
456 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
458 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
460 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
462 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
466 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
472 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
474 * typo: Closes, #78567
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
478 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
484 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
490 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
492 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
493 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
494 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
495 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
496 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
497 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
501 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
504 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
509 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
512 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
513 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
514 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
515 backwards-compatability.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
519 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
521 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
522 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
523 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
524 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
525 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
526 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
527 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
529 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
530 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
531 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
533 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
535 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
536 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
537 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
538 should now be raised to severity important..
539 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
540 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
544 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
547 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
552 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Typo, Closes: #77441
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
558 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Completed the fix from the last version.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
564 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
570 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
572 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
577 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
580 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
581 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
582 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
583 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
587 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
593 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
596 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
597 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
598 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
599 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
600 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
601 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
606 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
609 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
613 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
619 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
622 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
627 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
630 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
631 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
632 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
633 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
637 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
641 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
644 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
647 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
648 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
651 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
653 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
654 the TODO entry about it.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
658 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
665 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
668 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
669 prevent that. Closes: #73052
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
673 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
675 * Typo, Closes: #72932
676 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
677 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
678 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
679 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
683 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
689 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
696 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
698 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
699 (this appears to be logal).
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
703 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
706 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
707 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
708 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
709 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
713 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
719 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
721 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
722 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
723 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
724 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
725 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
729 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
735 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
738 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
742 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
749 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
752 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
753 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
754 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
759 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
766 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
768 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
772 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
774 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
775 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
776 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
777 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
778 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
779 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
780 notice until v2 is complete.
781 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
782 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
783 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
784 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
785 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
786 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
788 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
789 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
790 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
791 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
795 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
801 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
808 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
811 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
815 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
822 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
825 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
826 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
827 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
828 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
833 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
836 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
837 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
838 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
843 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
846 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
847 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
851 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
854 just skip files that end in -\d+.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
858 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
861 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
865 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
872 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
874 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
875 depend on the build and install targets.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
879 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
882 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
886 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
893 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
899 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
905 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
908 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
909 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
910 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
911 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
912 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
913 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
915 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
916 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
917 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
918 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
919 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
920 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
921 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
925 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
931 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
937 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
940 right place. Closes: #55065
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
944 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
951 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
953 * Make all examples rules files executable.
954 * Copyright date updates.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
958 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
961 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
966 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
968 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
972 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
979 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
985 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
991 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
997 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1000 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1001 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1002 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1003 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1004 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1005 bits until all files have been registered.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1009 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_installmanpages:
1012 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1013 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1014 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1015 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1016 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1017 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1018 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1019 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1020 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1021 otherwise change the result at all.
1023 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1024 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1025 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1026 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1027 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1032 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1038 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1041 act on files that don't exist.
1042 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1043 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1044 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1046 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1047 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1048 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1049 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1053 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1059 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1065 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1068 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1072 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1075 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1077 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1078 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1079 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1083 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1086 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1087 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1088 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1089 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1090 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1091 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1092 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1094 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1096 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1100 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1107 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1113 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1119 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1122 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1126 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1132 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1138 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1141 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1142 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1143 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1144 I made some changes, though:
1145 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1146 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1147 that is a clear violation of policy.
1148 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1149 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1150 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1151 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1152 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1153 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1154 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1155 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1156 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1158 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1162 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1168 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1171 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1175 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1178 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1179 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1184 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1190 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1197 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1200 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1201 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1202 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1203 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1204 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1205 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1206 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1210 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1220 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1221 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1225 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1231 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1234 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1238 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1241 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1242 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1246 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1248 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1253 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1257 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1261 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1264 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1265 for the dependancies to be generated.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1269 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1272 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1276 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1279 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1280 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1281 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1286 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1289 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1290 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1294 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1300 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1306 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1309 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1313 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1319 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1322 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1323 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1324 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1325 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1326 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1327 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1328 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1329 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1330 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1331 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1332 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1333 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1337 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1340 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1341 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1343 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1344 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1345 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1346 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1347 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1348 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1350 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1351 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1355 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1358 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1362 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1369 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1372 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1377 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1380 for building debhelper.
1381 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1385 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1392 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1395 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1399 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1402 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1403 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1404 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1405 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1406 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1407 it's always available.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1411 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1414 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1415 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1416 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1420 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1423 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1424 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1428 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1434 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1437 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1441 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1447 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1450 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1451 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1452 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1456 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1459 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1464 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1467 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1468 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1470 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1471 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1475 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1481 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1487 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1490 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1494 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1497 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1498 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1500 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1507 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1508 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1509 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1513 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1516 things if CDPATH is set.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1520 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1526 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1529 seems to make sense for the transition.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1533 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1536 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1541 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1544 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1545 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1549 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1552 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1556 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1559 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1560 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1561 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1562 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1566 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1572 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1575 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1576 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1577 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1578 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1579 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1580 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1581 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1582 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1583 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1584 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1589 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1592 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1593 * README: mention doc/v2
1594 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1595 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1599 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1601 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1602 be using this script RSN.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1606 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1609 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1610 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1611 more than 1 init script.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1615 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1618 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1622 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Changed perl version detection.
1625 * Changed call to find.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1629 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1632 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1634 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1639 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Really include dh_installpam.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1645 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1648 * Wrote man page for same.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1652 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1655 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1656 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1661 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1668 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1671 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1672 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1673 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1674 x bit was being set!
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1678 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1681 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1682 well. (Closes: 38900)
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1686 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1689 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1690 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1694 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1700 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1707 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1713 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1716 help from Julian Gilbey.
1717 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1718 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1719 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1720 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1721 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1722 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1723 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1728 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1734 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1741 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1747 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1753 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1756 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1760 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1763 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1767 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1770 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1774 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1780 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1783 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1787 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1793 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1799 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1802 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1803 may be deleted. (#35845)
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1807 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Various man page enhancements.
1810 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1815 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1818 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1819 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1823 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1826 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1827 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1828 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1830 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1831 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1836 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1842 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Another very minor typo fix.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1848 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Very minor typo fix.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1854 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1857 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1858 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1862 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1868 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1871 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1872 variables properly (#34850).
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1876 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1882 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1885 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1886 (automatically generated by build process).
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1890 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1892 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1896 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1899 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1900 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1902 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1906 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1909 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1913 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * README: minor typo fix.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1919 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1922 leave it at that. :-)
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1926 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1932 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1938 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1941 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1942 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1943 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1947 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1950 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1954 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1957 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1961 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1964 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1965 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1966 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1967 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1971 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1974 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1975 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1976 Craig Small for spotting this.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1980 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1983 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1984 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1988 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1994 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1997 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2001 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2003 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2004 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2005 working on the last version of debhelper.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2009 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2012 being made. (#23255)
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2016 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2022 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2025 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2029 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2032 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2033 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2034 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2035 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2039 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2042 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2043 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2044 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2045 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2047 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2048 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2050 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2055 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2061 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2067 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2070 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2071 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2072 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2073 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2074 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2075 suidregister actually supports it.
2076 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2077 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2081 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2088 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2091 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2092 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2093 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2094 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2095 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2096 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2097 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2101 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2103 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2104 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2108 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2111 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2112 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2113 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2114 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2118 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2121 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2123 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2124 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2125 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2126 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2127 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2128 effect, either. (#30118)
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2132 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2138 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2141 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2142 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2146 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2152 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2155 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2156 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2157 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2158 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2162 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2165 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2166 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2170 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2176 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2179 packages, painlessly.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2183 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2189 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2195 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2201 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * The perl conversion is complete.
2205 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2207 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2208 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2209 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2214 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2217 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2218 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2219 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2223 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2226 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2228 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2230 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2231 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2235 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2238 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2239 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2243 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2249 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2252 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2253 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2254 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2255 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2256 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2260 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2263 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2264 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2265 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2266 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2270 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2273 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2277 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2280 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2281 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2282 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2283 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2284 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2285 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2286 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2287 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2291 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2297 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2300 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2301 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2302 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2307 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2310 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2314 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2317 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2321 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2324 sections of shared libraries.
2325 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2326 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2327 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2328 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2329 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2330 things you don't want them to.
2331 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2332 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2336 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2339 shared libraries. (#26414)
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2343 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2345 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2346 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2347 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2348 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2352 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2356 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2358 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2359 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2360 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2361 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2362 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2366 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2369 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2373 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2376 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2377 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2382 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2385 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2389 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2392 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2393 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2394 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2395 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2396 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2398 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2399 remove debian/files properly.
2400 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2401 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2402 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2403 * Removed bogus menu file.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2407 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2410 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2414 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2417 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2418 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2419 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2420 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2421 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2422 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2426 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2429 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2430 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2431 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2432 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2436 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2443 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2446 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2447 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2449 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2450 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2451 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2452 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2453 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2454 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2458 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2461 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2462 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2463 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2464 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2465 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2466 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2467 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2468 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2469 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2470 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2471 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2472 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2473 passed any switches.
2474 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2478 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2481 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2482 at all for a long while.
2483 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2484 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2485 large chunks in the process.
2486 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2487 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2488 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2493 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2496 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2498 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2503 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2506 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2507 that don't always have the same files in them.
2508 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2509 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2510 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2514 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2518 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2519 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2520 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2521 updating 27 man pages.
2522 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2523 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2524 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2525 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2526 programs act on. (#25247)
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2530 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2534 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2535 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2536 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2537 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2538 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2539 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2544 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2551 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2558 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2561 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2565 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2571 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2574 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2575 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2576 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2577 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2578 package by accident.
2579 * Is version 1.0 next?
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2583 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2586 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2587 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2591 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2594 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2595 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2596 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2597 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2598 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2600 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2605 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2608 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2609 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2613 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2616 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2620 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2623 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2624 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2629 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2635 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2638 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2639 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2644 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2650 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2653 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2654 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2655 past week. Thanks, guys!
2657 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2658 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2659 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2660 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2661 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2662 would do in the same situation.
2663 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2664 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2666 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2668 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2669 permissions changed.
2670 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2671 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2672 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2673 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2674 files are treated identically.
2675 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2676 * Minor man page fixes.
2677 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2678 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2679 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2683 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2686 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2687 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2688 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2689 use -X multiple times, too.
2690 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2691 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2695 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2698 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2699 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2703 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2706 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2710 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2713 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2714 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2715 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2716 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2717 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2718 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2719 shape if you're starting a new package.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2723 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2726 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2730 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2733 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2734 because of missing symlinks.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2738 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2744 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2747 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2748 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2749 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2750 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2751 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2753 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2754 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2758 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2760 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2761 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2762 to be changed after the fact :-)
2763 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2767 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2770 no version string after the -V.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2774 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2776 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2777 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2782 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2785 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2789 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2792 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2793 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2794 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2795 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2796 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2797 I always welcome corrections!
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2801 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2807 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2810 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2811 * Documented this new switch.
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2815 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2818 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2819 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2820 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2821 no packages use the old behavior.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2825 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2828 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2829 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2833 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2836 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2840 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2846 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2849 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2853 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2856 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2857 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2858 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2862 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2868 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2871 into the source package by accident.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2875 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2878 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2879 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2880 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2881 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2882 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2883 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2888 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2892 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2893 inspired to implement some of it.
2894 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2898 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2901 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2905 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2908 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2909 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2913 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2916 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2917 have done.) (#17598)
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2921 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2927 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2933 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2936 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2940 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2943 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2944 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2948 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2951 argument processor in perl.
2952 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2953 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2954 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2955 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2959 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2962 type directories. (#16933)
2963 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2964 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2965 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2966 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2967 are supported. (#16935)
2968 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2973 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2976 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2980 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2984 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2985 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2986 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2987 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2988 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2989 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2993 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2996 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2997 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2999 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3000 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3001 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3002 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3003 a given package, or -i or -a.
3004 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3005 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3006 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3007 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3008 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3009 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3010 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3011 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3012 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3014 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3015 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3016 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3020 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3023 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3024 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3029 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3032 does not have a section.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3036 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3039 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3040 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3041 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3045 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Fixed typo #16215.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3051 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3054 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3055 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3056 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3057 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3058 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3063 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3066 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3067 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3068 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3073 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3079 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3085 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3088 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3089 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3090 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3091 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3092 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3093 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3097 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3103 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3106 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3110 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3113 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3114 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3115 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3119 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3122 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3126 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3132 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3135 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3139 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3142 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3146 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3152 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3155 postinst, postrm, etc.
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3159 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3165 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3168 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3169 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3170 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3171 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3172 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3176 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3179 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3180 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3184 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3187 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3191 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3194 installing package files into.
3195 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3200 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3204 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3208 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3214 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3217 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3221 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3224 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3225 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3226 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3227 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3231 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3233 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3234 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3235 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3236 multiple binary packages.
3237 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3238 should rebuild them with this version.
3239 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3243 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3246 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3250 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3253 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3257 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3260 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3261 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3262 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3263 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3264 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3265 debian/README.debian.
3266 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3267 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3268 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3269 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3270 in a few situations.)
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3274 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3280 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3286 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3289 * Fixed several man pages.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3293 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3296 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3297 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3301 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3304 is ready for general use.
3305 * Added man pages for all commands.
3306 * Multiple binary package support.
3307 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3308 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3309 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3311 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3312 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3313 auto-installed as parameters.
3314 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3316 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3319 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3320 the package build directory it is to act on.
3321 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3322 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3323 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3327 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3329 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3330 ready to replace debstd.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400