1 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
4 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
7 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
8 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
12 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
14 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
18 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
21 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
25 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
28 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
29 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
30 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
32 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
34 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
35 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
36 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
40 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
43 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
48 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
51 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
52 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
53 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
58 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
64 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
70 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
73 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
74 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
75 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
76 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
77 associated -dbg packages.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
81 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
84 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
88 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
91 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
95 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
98 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
102 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
105 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
110 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Typo. Closes: #207999
113 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
117 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
120 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
125 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
128 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
132 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
136 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
137 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
138 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
139 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
140 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
141 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
142 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
143 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
144 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
145 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
149 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
152 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
157 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
160 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
161 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
165 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
168 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
169 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
174 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
177 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
181 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
184 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
188 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
191 out section number. Closes: #204731
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
195 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
202 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
208 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
214 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
216 * Typo, Closes: #203907
217 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
218 removal. Closes: #204286
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
222 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
225 renaming. Closes: #203548
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
229 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
232 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
233 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
237 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
243 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
249 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
255 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
258 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
259 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
260 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
264 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
267 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
268 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
272 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
278 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
285 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
288 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
293 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
296 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
300 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
303 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
305 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
306 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
310 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
313 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
318 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
321 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
325 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
331 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
333 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
337 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
340 it break hard links (see #188663).
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
344 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
347 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
351 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
357 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
361 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
362 debconf-mergetemplates
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
366 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
369 pod2man. Closes: #184013
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
373 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
376 * Typo, Closes: #183267
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
380 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
383 * Update debhelper(1).
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
387 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
389 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
390 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
391 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
392 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
393 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
394 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
398 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
401 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
402 the shell. Closes: #178524
403 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
407 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
410 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
414 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
417 undocumented.7 links anymore.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
421 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
423 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
424 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
425 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
426 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
427 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
432 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
435 files from installation.
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
439 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
442 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
443 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
447 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
450 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
454 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
457 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
461 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
467 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
473 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
477 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
478 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
480 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
484 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
487 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
488 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
489 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
490 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
494 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
496 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
497 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
501 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
504 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
505 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
509 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
513 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
518 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
524 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
528 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
529 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
530 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
535 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
538 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
539 practice. Closes: #163303
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
543 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
549 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
556 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
558 * The "reverse hangover" release.
559 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
561 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
562 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
563 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
564 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
565 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
569 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
572 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
577 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
583 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
590 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
593 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
598 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
604 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
610 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
616 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
623 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
626 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
627 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
628 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
629 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
634 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Typo, Closes: #155323
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
640 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
647 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
650 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
651 * Removed dh_installxaw.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
655 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
658 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
659 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
660 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
661 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
662 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
666 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
669 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
671 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
676 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
678 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
679 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
683 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
686 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
687 right thing. Closes: #150644
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
691 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
698 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
700 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
705 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
708 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
709 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
714 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
720 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
723 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
727 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
730 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
731 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
736 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
739 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
743 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
749 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
752 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
753 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
757 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
763 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Removing perl warning message.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
769 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
772 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
773 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
774 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
775 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
776 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
777 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
778 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
779 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
783 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
789 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
796 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
799 debconf-mergetemplate.
800 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
801 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
805 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
808 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
809 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
810 dh_install, which ...
811 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
812 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
813 mess, as it uses debian/install.
814 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
815 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
816 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
817 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
818 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
819 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
820 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
821 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
822 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
823 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
824 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
826 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
827 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
828 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
829 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
830 course there's -X ..)
831 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
832 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
833 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
835 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
836 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
837 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
838 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
839 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
844 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
850 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
852 * Typo, Closes: #139176
853 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
857 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
863 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
869 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
875 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
881 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
884 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
885 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
886 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
887 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
889 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
890 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
894 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
900 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Typo, Closes: #132454
903 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
907 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
910 upset. Closes: #131322
912 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
914 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
916 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
917 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
918 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
919 line, as well as in debian/rules.
920 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
921 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
922 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
923 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
924 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
925 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
926 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
927 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
928 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
929 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
930 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
931 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
933 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
937 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
940 - Better indenting of generated code.
941 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
945 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
949 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
950 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
951 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
952 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
953 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
954 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
955 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
959 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
961 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
962 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
966 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
968 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
969 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
970 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
971 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
972 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
973 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
974 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
975 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
976 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
977 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
978 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
979 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
980 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
981 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
982 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
983 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
988 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
990 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
994 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
997 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
998 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1002 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1005 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1006 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1010 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1016 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1019 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1020 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1021 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1022 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1023 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1028 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1034 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1037 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1041 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1044 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1049 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1055 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1058 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1062 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1068 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1072 Also some indentation fixes.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1076 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1079 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1080 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1081 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1082 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1083 Closes: #106514, #85520
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1087 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1093 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1099 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1105 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1111 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1117 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1120 change it in debhelper v4..
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1124 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1130 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1133 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1137 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1140 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1144 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1150 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1153 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1154 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1155 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1156 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1157 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1158 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1159 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1160 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1161 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1162 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1163 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1164 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1168 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1171 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1175 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1182 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1185 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1186 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1187 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1188 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1189 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1190 program those options go to. So, for example,
1191 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1192 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1193 something complex. Closes: #89311
1194 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1198 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1201 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1202 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1203 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1207 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1210 through loop. Closes: #98598
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1214 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Missing semi-colon.
1217 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1218 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1222 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1225 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1226 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1227 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1231 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1234 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1235 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1239 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1242 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1246 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1249 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1250 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1254 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1257 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1258 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1259 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1263 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1266 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1267 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1268 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1272 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1275 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1279 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1285 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1291 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1297 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1303 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1306 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1310 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1313 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1314 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1315 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1316 followed. Closes: #85483
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1320 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1322 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1323 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1324 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1328 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1331 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1332 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1333 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1334 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1335 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1336 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1337 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1338 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1339 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1340 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1341 Closes: #88464, #77743
1342 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1343 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1344 us to deal with that gracefully.
1345 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1347 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1348 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1349 a while, Closes: #51225
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1353 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1359 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1362 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1366 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1370 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1375 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1378 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1379 don't make packlist files.
1380 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1381 debhelper coding standards.
1382 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1383 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1387 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1390 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1394 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1397 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1398 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1399 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1400 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1401 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1402 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1403 but is mildly deprecated.
1404 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1405 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1406 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1407 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1408 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1409 switching to statoverrides..
1410 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1411 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1412 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1413 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1414 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1415 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1417 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1418 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1419 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1420 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1421 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1422 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1423 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1424 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1425 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1427 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1428 variable names, pod man pages).
1429 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1430 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1431 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1432 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1433 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1434 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1435 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1439 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1445 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1452 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1455 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1459 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1461 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1462 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1463 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1467 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1469 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1470 they were previously ignored.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1474 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1476 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1477 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1481 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1483 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1484 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1485 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1489 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1491 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1495 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1497 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1498 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1502 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1504 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1505 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1506 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1507 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1508 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1509 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1510 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1511 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1512 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1513 it is an obsolete program.
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1517 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1519 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1523 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1527 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1529 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1533 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1535 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1537 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1539 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1543 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1549 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * typo: Closes, #78567
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1555 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1561 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1567 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1570 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1571 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1572 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1573 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1574 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1578 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1581 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1586 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1589 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1590 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1591 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1592 backwards-compatability.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1596 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1599 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1600 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1601 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1602 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1603 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1604 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1606 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1607 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1608 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1610 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1612 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1613 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1614 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1615 should now be raised to severity important..
1616 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1617 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1621 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1624 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1629 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1635 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1641 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1647 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1654 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1657 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1658 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1659 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1660 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1664 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1670 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1673 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1674 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1675 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1676 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1677 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1678 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1683 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1686 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1690 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1696 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1699 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1704 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1707 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1708 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1709 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1710 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1714 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1718 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1721 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1724 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1725 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1728 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1730 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1731 the TODO entry about it.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1735 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1742 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1745 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1746 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1750 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1753 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1754 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1755 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1756 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1760 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1766 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1773 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1776 (this appears to be logal).
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1780 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1783 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1784 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1785 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1786 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1790 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1796 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1799 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1800 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1801 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1802 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1806 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1812 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1815 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1819 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1826 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1829 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1830 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1831 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1836 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1843 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1849 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1852 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1853 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1854 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1855 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1856 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1857 notice until v2 is complete.
1858 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1859 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1860 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1861 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1862 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1863 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1865 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1866 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1867 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1868 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1872 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1878 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1885 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1888 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1892 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1899 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1902 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1903 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1904 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1905 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1910 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1913 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1914 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1915 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1920 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1923 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1924 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1928 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1931 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1935 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1938 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1942 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1949 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1952 depend on the build and install targets.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1956 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1959 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1963 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1970 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1976 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1982 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1985 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1986 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1987 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1988 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1989 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1990 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1992 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1993 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1994 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1995 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1996 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1997 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1998 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2002 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2008 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2014 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2017 right place. Closes: #55065
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2021 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2028 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2031 * Copyright date updates.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2035 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2038 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2043 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2049 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2056 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2062 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2068 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2074 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2077 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2078 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2079 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2080 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2081 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2082 bits until all files have been registered.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2086 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_installmanpages:
2089 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2090 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2091 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2092 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2093 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2094 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2095 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2096 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2097 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2098 otherwise change the result at all.
2100 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2101 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2102 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2103 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2104 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2109 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2115 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2118 act on files that don't exist.
2119 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2120 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2121 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2123 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2124 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2125 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2126 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2130 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2136 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2142 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2145 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2149 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2152 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2154 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2155 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2156 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2160 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2163 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2164 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2165 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2166 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2167 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2168 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2169 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2171 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2173 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2177 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2184 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2190 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2196 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2199 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2203 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2209 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2215 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2218 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2219 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2220 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2221 I made some changes, though:
2222 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2223 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2224 that is a clear violation of policy.
2225 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2226 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2227 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2228 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2229 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2230 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2231 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2232 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2233 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2235 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2239 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2245 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2248 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2252 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2255 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2256 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2261 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2267 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2274 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2277 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2278 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2279 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2280 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2281 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2282 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2283 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2287 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2293 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2297 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2298 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2302 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2308 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2311 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2315 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2318 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2319 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2323 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2325 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2330 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2334 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2338 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2341 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2342 for the dependancies to be generated.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2346 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2349 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2353 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2356 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2357 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2358 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2363 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2366 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2367 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2371 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2377 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2383 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2386 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2390 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2396 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2399 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2400 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2401 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2402 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2403 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2404 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2405 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2406 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2407 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2408 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2409 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2410 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2414 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2417 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2418 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2420 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2421 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2422 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2423 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2424 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2425 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2427 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2428 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2432 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2435 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2439 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2446 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2449 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2454 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2457 for building debhelper.
2458 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2462 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2469 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2472 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2476 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2479 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2480 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2481 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2482 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2483 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2484 it's always available.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2488 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2491 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2492 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2493 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2497 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2500 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2501 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2505 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2511 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2514 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2518 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2524 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2527 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2528 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2529 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2533 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2536 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2541 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2544 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2545 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2547 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2548 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2552 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2558 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2564 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2567 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2571 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2574 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2575 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2577 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2581 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2584 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2585 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2586 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2590 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2593 things if CDPATH is set.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2597 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2603 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2606 seems to make sense for the transition.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2610 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2613 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2618 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2621 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2622 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2626 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2629 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2633 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2636 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2637 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2638 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2639 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2643 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2649 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2652 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2653 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2654 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2655 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2656 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2657 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2658 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2659 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2660 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2661 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2666 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2669 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2670 * README: mention doc/v2
2671 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2672 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2676 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2678 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2679 be using this script RSN.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2683 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2686 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2687 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2688 more than 1 init script.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2692 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2695 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2699 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Changed perl version detection.
2702 * Changed call to find.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2706 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2709 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2711 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2716 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Really include dh_installpam.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2722 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2725 * Wrote man page for same.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2729 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2732 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2733 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2738 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2745 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2748 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2749 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2750 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2751 x bit was being set!
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2755 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2758 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2759 well. (Closes: 38900)
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2763 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2766 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2767 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2771 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2777 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2784 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2790 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2793 help from Julian Gilbey.
2794 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2795 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2796 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2797 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2798 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2799 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2800 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2805 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2811 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2818 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2824 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2830 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2833 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2837 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2840 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2844 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2847 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2851 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2857 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2860 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2864 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2870 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2876 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2879 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2880 may be deleted. (#35845)
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2884 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Various man page enhancements.
2887 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2892 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2895 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2896 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2900 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2903 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2904 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2905 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2907 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2908 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2913 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2919 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Another very minor typo fix.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2925 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Very minor typo fix.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2931 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2934 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2935 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2939 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2945 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2948 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2949 variables properly (#34850).
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2953 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2959 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2962 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2963 (automatically generated by build process).
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2967 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2969 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2973 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2976 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2977 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2979 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2983 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2986 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2990 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * README: minor typo fix.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2996 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2999 leave it at that. :-)
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3003 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3009 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3015 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3018 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3019 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3020 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3024 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3027 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3031 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3034 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3038 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3041 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3042 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3043 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3044 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3048 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3051 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3052 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3053 Craig Small for spotting this.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3057 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3060 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3061 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3065 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3071 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3074 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3078 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3080 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3081 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3082 working on the last version of debhelper.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3086 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3089 being made. (#23255)
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3093 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3099 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3102 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3106 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3109 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3110 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3111 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3112 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3116 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3119 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3120 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3121 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3122 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3124 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3125 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3127 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3132 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3138 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3144 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3147 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3148 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3149 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3150 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3151 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3152 suidregister actually supports it.
3153 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3154 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3158 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3165 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3168 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3169 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3170 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3171 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3172 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3173 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3174 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3178 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3180 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3181 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3185 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3188 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3189 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3190 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3191 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3195 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3198 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3200 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3201 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3202 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3203 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3204 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3205 effect, either. (#30118)
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3209 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3215 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3218 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3219 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3223 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3229 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3232 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3233 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3234 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3235 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3239 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3242 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3243 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3247 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3253 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3256 packages, painlessly.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3260 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3266 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3272 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3278 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * The perl conversion is complete.
3282 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3284 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3285 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3286 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3291 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3294 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3295 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3296 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3300 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3303 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3305 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3307 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3308 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3312 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3315 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3316 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3320 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3326 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3329 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3330 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3331 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3332 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3333 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3337 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3340 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3341 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3342 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3343 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3347 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3350 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3354 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3357 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3358 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3359 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3360 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3361 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3362 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3363 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3364 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3368 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3374 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3377 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3378 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3379 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3384 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3387 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3391 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3394 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3398 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3401 sections of shared libraries.
3402 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3403 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3404 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3405 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3406 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3407 things you don't want them to.
3408 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3409 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3413 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3416 shared libraries. (#26414)
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3420 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3422 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3423 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3424 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3425 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3429 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3433 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3435 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3436 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3437 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3438 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3439 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3443 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3446 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3450 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3453 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3454 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3459 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3462 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3466 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3469 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3470 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3471 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3472 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3473 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3475 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3476 remove debian/files properly.
3477 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3478 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3479 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3480 * Removed bogus menu file.
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3484 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3487 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3491 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3494 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3495 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3496 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3497 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3498 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3499 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3503 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3506 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3507 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3508 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3509 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3513 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3520 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3523 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3524 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3526 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3527 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3528 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3529 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3530 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3531 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3535 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3538 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3539 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3540 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3541 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3542 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3543 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3544 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3545 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3546 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3547 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3548 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3549 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3550 passed any switches.
3551 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3555 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3558 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3559 at all for a long while.
3560 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3561 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3562 large chunks in the process.
3563 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3564 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3565 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3570 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3573 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3575 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3580 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3583 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3584 that don't always have the same files in them.
3585 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3586 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3587 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3591 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3595 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3596 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3597 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3598 updating 27 man pages.
3599 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3600 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3601 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3602 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3603 programs act on. (#25247)
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3607 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3611 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3612 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3613 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3614 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3615 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3616 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3621 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3628 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3635 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3638 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3642 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3648 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3651 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3652 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3653 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3654 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3655 package by accident.
3656 * Is version 1.0 next?
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3660 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3663 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3664 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3668 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3671 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3672 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3673 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3674 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3675 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3677 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3682 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3685 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3686 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3690 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3693 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3697 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3700 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3701 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3706 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3712 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3715 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3716 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3721 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3727 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3730 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3731 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3732 past week. Thanks, guys!
3734 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3735 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3736 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3737 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3738 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3739 would do in the same situation.
3740 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3741 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3743 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3745 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3746 permissions changed.
3747 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3748 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3749 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3750 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3751 files are treated identically.
3752 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3753 * Minor man page fixes.
3754 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3755 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3756 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3760 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3763 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3764 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3765 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3766 use -X multiple times, too.
3767 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3768 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3772 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3775 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3776 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3780 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3783 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3787 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3790 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3791 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3792 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3793 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3794 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3795 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3796 shape if you're starting a new package.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3800 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3803 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3807 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3810 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3811 because of missing symlinks.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3815 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3821 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3824 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3825 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3826 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3827 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3828 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3830 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3831 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3835 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3837 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3838 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3839 to be changed after the fact :-)
3840 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3844 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3847 no version string after the -V.
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3851 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3853 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3854 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3859 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3862 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3866 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3869 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3870 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3871 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3872 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3873 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3874 I always welcome corrections!
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3878 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3884 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3887 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3888 * Documented this new switch.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3892 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3895 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3896 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3897 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3898 no packages use the old behavior.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3902 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3905 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3906 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3910 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3913 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3917 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3923 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3926 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3930 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3933 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3934 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3935 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3939 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3945 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3948 into the source package by accident.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3952 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3955 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3956 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3957 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3958 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3959 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3960 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3965 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3969 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3970 inspired to implement some of it.
3971 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3975 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3978 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3982 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3985 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3986 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3990 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3993 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3994 have done.) (#17598)
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3998 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4004 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4010 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4013 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4017 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4020 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4021 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4025 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4028 argument processor in perl.
4029 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4030 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4031 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4032 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4036 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4039 type directories. (#16933)
4040 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4041 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4042 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4043 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4044 are supported. (#16935)
4045 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4050 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4053 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4057 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4061 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4062 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4063 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4064 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4065 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4066 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4070 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4073 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4074 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4076 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4077 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4078 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4079 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4080 a given package, or -i or -a.
4081 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4082 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4083 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4084 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4085 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4086 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4087 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4088 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4089 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4091 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4092 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4093 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4097 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4100 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4101 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4106 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4109 does not have a section.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4113 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4116 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4117 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4118 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4122 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * Fixed typo #16215.
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4128 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4131 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4132 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4133 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4134 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4135 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4140 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4143 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4144 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4145 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4150 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4156 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4162 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4165 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4166 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4167 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4168 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4169 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4170 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4174 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4180 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4183 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4187 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4190 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4191 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4192 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4196 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4199 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4203 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4209 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4212 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4216 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4219 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4223 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4229 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4232 postinst, postrm, etc.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4236 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4242 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4245 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4246 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4247 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4248 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4249 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4253 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4256 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4257 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4261 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4264 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4268 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4271 installing package files into.
4272 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4277 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4281 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4285 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4291 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4294 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4298 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4301 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4302 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4303 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4304 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4308 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4310 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4311 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4312 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4313 multiple binary packages.
4314 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4315 should rebuild them with this version.
4316 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4320 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4323 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4327 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4330 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4334 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4337 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4338 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4339 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4340 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4341 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4342 debian/README.debian.
4343 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4344 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4345 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4346 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4347 in a few situations.)
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4351 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4357 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4363 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4366 * Fixed several man pages.
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4370 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4373 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4374 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4378 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4381 is ready for general use.
4382 * Added man pages for all commands.
4383 * Multiple binary package support.
4384 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4385 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4386 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4388 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4389 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4390 auto-installed as parameters.
4391 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4393 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4396 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4397 the package build directory it is to act on.
4398 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4399 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4400 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4404 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4406 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4407 ready to replace debstd.
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400