1 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
8 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
14 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
20 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Typo, Closes: #203907
23 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
24 removal. Closes: #204286
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
28 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
31 renaming. Closes: #203548
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
35 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
38 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
39 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
43 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
49 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
55 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
61 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
64 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
65 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
66 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
70 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
73 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
74 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
78 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
84 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
91 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
94 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
99 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
102 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
106 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
109 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
111 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
112 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
116 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
119 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
124 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
127 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
131 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
137 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
139 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
143 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
146 it break hard links (see #188663).
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
150 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
153 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
157 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
163 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
165 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
167 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
168 debconf-mergetemplates
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
172 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
175 pod2man. Closes: #184013
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
179 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
182 * Typo, Closes: #183267
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
186 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
189 * Update debhelper(1).
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
193 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
195 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
196 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
197 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
198 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
199 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
200 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
204 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
206 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
207 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
208 the shell. Closes: #178524
209 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
213 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
216 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
220 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
223 undocumented.7 links anymore.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
227 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
229 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
230 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
231 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
232 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
233 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
238 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
241 files from installation.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
245 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
248 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
249 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
253 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
256 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
260 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
263 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
267 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
273 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
279 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
283 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
284 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
286 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
290 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
292 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
293 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
294 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
295 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
296 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
300 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
302 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
303 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
307 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
310 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
311 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
315 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
319 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
324 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
330 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
334 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
335 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
336 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
341 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
344 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
345 practice. Closes: #163303
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
349 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
355 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
362 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
364 * The "reverse hangover" release.
365 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
367 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
368 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
369 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
370 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
371 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
375 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
378 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
383 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
389 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
396 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
399 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
404 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
410 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
416 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
422 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
429 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
432 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
433 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
434 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
435 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
440 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Typo, Closes: #155323
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
446 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
453 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
456 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
457 * Removed dh_installxaw.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
461 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
464 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
465 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
466 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
467 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
468 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
472 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
475 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
477 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
482 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
484 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
485 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
489 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
492 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
493 right thing. Closes: #150644
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
497 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
504 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
506 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
511 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
514 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
515 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
520 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
526 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
529 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
533 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
536 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
537 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
542 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
545 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
549 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
555 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
558 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
559 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
563 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
569 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Removing perl warning message.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
575 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
578 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
579 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
580 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
581 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
582 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
583 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
584 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
585 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
589 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
595 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
602 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
605 debconf-mergetemplate.
606 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
607 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
611 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
614 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
615 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
616 dh_install, which ...
617 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
618 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
619 mess, as it uses debian/install.
620 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
621 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
622 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
623 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
624 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
625 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
626 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
627 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
628 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
629 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
630 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
632 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
633 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
634 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
635 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
636 course there's -X ..)
637 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
638 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
639 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
641 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
642 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
643 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
644 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
645 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
650 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
656 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Typo, Closes: #139176
659 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
663 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
669 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
675 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
681 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
687 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
690 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
691 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
692 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
693 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
695 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
696 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
700 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
706 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Typo, Closes: #132454
709 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
713 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
716 upset. Closes: #131322
718 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
720 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
723 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
724 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
725 line, as well as in debian/rules.
726 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
727 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
728 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
729 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
730 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
731 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
732 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
733 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
734 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
735 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
736 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
737 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
739 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
743 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
746 - Better indenting of generated code.
747 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
751 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
755 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
756 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
757 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
758 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
759 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
760 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
761 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
765 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
768 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
772 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
775 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
776 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
777 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
778 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
779 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
780 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
781 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
782 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
783 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
784 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
785 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
786 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
787 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
788 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
789 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
794 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
800 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
803 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
804 * fixed dh_testdir man page
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
808 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Typo, Closes: #122679
811 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
812 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
816 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
822 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
825 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
826 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
827 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
828 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
829 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
834 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
836 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
840 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
843 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
847 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
850 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
855 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Typo, Closes: #114135
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
861 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
864 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
868 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
874 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
878 Also some indentation fixes.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
882 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
885 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
886 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
887 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
888 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
889 Closes: #106514, #85520
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
893 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Typo, Closes: #104405
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
899 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
905 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
907 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
911 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
917 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
923 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
926 change it in debhelper v4..
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
930 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
936 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
939 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
943 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
946 is not essential. Closes: #100430
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
950 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
956 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
959 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
960 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
961 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
962 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
963 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
964 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
965 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
966 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
967 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
968 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
969 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
970 prefixed with ".debhelper")
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
974 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
977 look just like shared libs, but are not.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
981 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
988 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
990 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
991 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
992 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
993 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
994 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
995 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
996 program those options go to. So, for example,
997 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
998 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
999 something complex. Closes: #89311
1000 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1004 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1007 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1008 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1009 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1013 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1016 through loop. Closes: #98598
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1020 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Missing semi-colon.
1023 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1024 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1028 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1031 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1032 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1033 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1037 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1040 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1041 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1045 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1048 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1052 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1055 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1056 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1060 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1063 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1064 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1065 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1069 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1072 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1073 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1074 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1078 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1081 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1085 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1091 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1097 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1103 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1109 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1112 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1116 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1119 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1120 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1121 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1122 followed. Closes: #85483
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1126 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1128 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1129 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1130 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1134 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1137 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1138 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1139 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1140 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1141 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1142 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1143 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1144 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1145 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1146 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1147 Closes: #88464, #77743
1148 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1149 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1150 us to deal with that gracefully.
1151 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1153 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1154 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1155 a while, Closes: #51225
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1159 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1165 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1168 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1172 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1176 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1181 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1184 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1185 don't make packlist files.
1186 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1187 debhelper coding standards.
1188 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1189 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1193 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1196 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1200 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1203 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1204 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1205 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1206 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1207 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1208 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1209 but is mildly deprecated.
1210 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1211 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1212 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1213 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1214 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1215 switching to statoverrides..
1216 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1217 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1218 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1219 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1220 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1221 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1223 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1224 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1225 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1226 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1227 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1228 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1229 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1230 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1231 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1233 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1234 variable names, pod man pages).
1235 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1236 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1237 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1238 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1239 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1240 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1241 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1245 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1251 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1258 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1261 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1265 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1267 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1268 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1269 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1273 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1275 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1276 they were previously ignored.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1280 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1282 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1283 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1287 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1289 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1290 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1291 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1295 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1297 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1301 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1303 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1304 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1308 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1310 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1311 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1312 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1313 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1314 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1315 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1316 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1317 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1318 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1319 it is an obsolete program.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1323 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1325 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1329 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1333 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1335 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1339 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1341 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1343 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1345 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1349 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1355 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * typo: Closes, #78567
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1361 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1367 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1373 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1376 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1377 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1378 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1379 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1380 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1384 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1387 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1392 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1395 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1396 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1397 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1398 backwards-compatability.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1402 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1405 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1406 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1407 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1408 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1409 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1410 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1412 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1413 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1414 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1416 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1418 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1419 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1420 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1421 should now be raised to severity important..
1422 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1423 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1427 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1430 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1435 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1441 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1447 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1453 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1460 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1463 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1464 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1465 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1466 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1470 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1476 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1479 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1480 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1481 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1482 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1483 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1484 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1489 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1492 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1496 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1502 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1505 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1513 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1514 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1515 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1516 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1520 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1524 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1527 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1530 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1531 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1534 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1536 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1537 the TODO entry about it.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1541 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1548 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1551 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1552 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1556 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1559 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1560 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1561 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1562 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1566 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1572 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1579 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1582 (this appears to be logal).
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1586 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1589 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1590 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1591 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1592 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1596 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1602 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1605 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1606 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1607 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1608 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1612 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1618 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1621 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1625 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1632 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1635 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1636 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1637 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1642 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1649 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1655 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1658 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1659 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1660 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1661 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1662 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1663 notice until v2 is complete.
1664 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1665 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1666 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1667 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1668 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1669 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1671 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1672 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1673 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1674 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1678 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1684 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1691 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1694 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1698 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1705 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1708 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1709 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1710 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1711 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1716 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1719 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1720 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1721 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1726 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1729 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1730 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1734 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1737 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1741 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1744 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1748 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1755 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1758 depend on the build and install targets.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1762 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1765 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1776 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1782 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1788 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1791 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1792 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1793 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1794 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1795 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1796 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1798 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1799 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1800 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1801 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1802 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1803 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1804 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1808 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1814 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1820 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1823 right place. Closes: #55065
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1827 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1834 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1837 * Copyright date updates.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1841 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1844 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1849 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1855 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1862 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1868 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1874 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1880 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1883 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1884 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1885 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1886 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1887 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1888 bits until all files have been registered.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1892 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_installmanpages:
1895 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1896 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1897 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1898 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1899 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1900 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1901 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1902 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1903 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1904 otherwise change the result at all.
1906 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1907 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1908 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1909 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1910 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1915 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1921 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1924 act on files that don't exist.
1925 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1926 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1927 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1929 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1930 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1931 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1932 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1936 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1942 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1948 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1951 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1955 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1958 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1960 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1961 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1962 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1966 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1969 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1970 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1971 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1972 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1973 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1974 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1975 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1977 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1979 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1983 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1990 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1996 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2002 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2005 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2009 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2015 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2021 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2024 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2025 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2026 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2027 I made some changes, though:
2028 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2029 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2030 that is a clear violation of policy.
2031 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2032 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2033 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2034 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2035 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2036 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2037 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2038 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2039 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2041 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2045 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2051 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2054 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2058 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2061 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2062 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2067 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2073 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2080 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2083 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2084 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2085 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2086 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2087 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2088 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2089 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2093 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2099 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2103 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2104 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2108 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2114 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2117 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2121 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2124 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2125 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2129 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2131 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2136 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2140 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2144 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2147 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2148 for the dependancies to be generated.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2152 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2155 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2159 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2162 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2163 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2164 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2169 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2172 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2173 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2177 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2183 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2189 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2192 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2196 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2202 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2205 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2206 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2207 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2208 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2209 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2210 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2211 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2212 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2213 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2214 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2215 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2216 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2220 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2223 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2224 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2226 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2227 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2228 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2229 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2230 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2231 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2233 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2234 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2238 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2241 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2245 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2252 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2255 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2260 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2263 for building debhelper.
2264 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2268 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2275 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2278 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2282 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2285 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2286 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2287 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2288 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2289 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2290 it's always available.
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2294 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2297 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2298 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2299 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2303 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2306 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2307 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2311 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2317 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2320 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2324 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2330 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2333 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2334 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2335 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2339 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2342 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2347 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2350 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2351 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2353 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2354 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2358 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2364 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2370 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2373 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2377 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2380 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2381 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2383 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2387 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2390 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2391 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2392 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2396 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2399 things if CDPATH is set.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2403 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2409 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2412 seems to make sense for the transition.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2416 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2419 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2424 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2427 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2428 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2432 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2435 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2439 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2442 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2443 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2444 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2445 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2449 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2455 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2458 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2459 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2460 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2461 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2462 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2463 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2464 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2465 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2466 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2467 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2472 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2475 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2476 * README: mention doc/v2
2477 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2478 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2482 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2484 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2485 be using this script RSN.
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2489 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2492 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2493 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2494 more than 1 init script.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2498 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2501 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2505 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Changed perl version detection.
2508 * Changed call to find.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2512 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2515 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2517 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2522 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Really include dh_installpam.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2528 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2531 * Wrote man page for same.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2535 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2538 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2539 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2544 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2551 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2554 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2555 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2556 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2557 x bit was being set!
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2561 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2564 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2565 well. (Closes: 38900)
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2569 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2572 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2573 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2577 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2583 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2590 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2596 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2599 help from Julian Gilbey.
2600 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2601 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2602 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2603 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2604 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2605 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2606 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2611 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2617 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2624 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2630 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2636 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2639 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2643 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2646 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2650 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2653 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2657 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2663 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2666 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2670 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2676 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2682 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2685 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2686 may be deleted. (#35845)
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2690 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Various man page enhancements.
2693 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2698 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2701 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2702 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2706 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2709 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2710 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2711 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2713 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2714 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2719 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2725 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Another very minor typo fix.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2731 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * Very minor typo fix.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2737 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2740 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2741 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2745 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2751 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2754 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2755 variables properly (#34850).
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2759 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2765 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2768 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2769 (automatically generated by build process).
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2773 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2775 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2779 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2782 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2783 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2785 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2789 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2792 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2796 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * README: minor typo fix.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2802 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2805 leave it at that. :-)
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2809 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2815 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2821 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2824 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2825 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2826 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2830 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2833 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2837 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2840 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2844 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2847 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2848 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2849 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2850 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2854 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2857 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2858 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2859 Craig Small for spotting this.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2863 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2866 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2867 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2871 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2877 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2880 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2884 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2886 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2887 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2888 working on the last version of debhelper.
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2892 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2895 being made. (#23255)
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2899 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2905 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2908 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2912 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2915 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2916 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2917 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2918 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2922 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2925 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2926 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2927 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2928 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2930 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2931 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2933 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2938 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2944 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2950 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2953 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2954 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2955 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2956 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2957 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2958 suidregister actually supports it.
2959 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2960 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2964 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2971 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2974 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2975 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2976 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2977 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2978 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2979 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2980 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2984 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2986 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2987 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2991 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2994 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2995 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2996 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2997 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3001 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3004 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3006 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3007 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3008 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3009 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3010 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3011 effect, either. (#30118)
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3015 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3021 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3024 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3025 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3029 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3035 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3038 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3039 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3040 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3041 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3045 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3048 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3049 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3053 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3059 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3062 packages, painlessly.
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3066 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3072 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3078 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3084 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * The perl conversion is complete.
3088 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3090 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3091 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3092 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3097 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3100 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3101 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3102 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3106 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3109 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3111 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3113 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3114 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3118 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3121 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3122 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3126 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3132 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3135 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3136 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3137 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3138 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3139 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3143 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3146 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3147 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3148 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3149 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3153 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3156 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3160 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3163 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3164 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3165 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3166 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3167 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3168 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3169 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3170 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3174 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3180 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3183 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3184 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3185 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3190 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3193 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3197 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3200 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3204 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3207 sections of shared libraries.
3208 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3209 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3210 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3211 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3212 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3213 things you don't want them to.
3214 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3215 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3219 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3222 shared libraries. (#26414)
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3226 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3228 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3229 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3230 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3231 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3235 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3239 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3241 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3242 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3243 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3244 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3245 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3249 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3252 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3256 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3259 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3260 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3265 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3268 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3272 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3275 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3276 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3277 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3278 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3279 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3281 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3282 remove debian/files properly.
3283 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3284 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3285 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3286 * Removed bogus menu file.
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3290 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3293 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3297 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3300 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3301 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3302 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3303 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3304 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3305 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3309 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3312 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3313 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3314 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3315 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3319 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3326 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3329 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3330 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3332 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3333 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3334 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3335 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3336 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3337 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3341 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3344 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3345 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3346 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3347 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3348 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3349 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3350 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3351 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3352 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3353 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3354 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3355 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3356 passed any switches.
3357 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3361 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3364 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3365 at all for a long while.
3366 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3367 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3368 large chunks in the process.
3369 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3370 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3371 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3376 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3379 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3381 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3386 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3389 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3390 that don't always have the same files in them.
3391 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3392 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3393 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3397 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3401 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3402 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3403 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3404 updating 27 man pages.
3405 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3406 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3407 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3408 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3409 programs act on. (#25247)
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3413 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3417 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3418 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3419 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3420 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3421 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3422 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3427 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3434 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3441 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3444 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3448 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3454 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3457 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3458 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3459 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3460 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3461 package by accident.
3462 * Is version 1.0 next?
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3466 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3469 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3470 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3474 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3477 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3478 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3479 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3480 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3481 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3483 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3488 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3491 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3492 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3496 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3499 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3503 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3506 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3507 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3512 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3518 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3521 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3522 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3527 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3533 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3536 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3537 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3538 past week. Thanks, guys!
3540 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3541 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3542 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3543 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3544 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3545 would do in the same situation.
3546 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3547 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3549 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3551 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3552 permissions changed.
3553 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3554 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3555 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3556 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3557 files are treated identically.
3558 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3559 * Minor man page fixes.
3560 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3561 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3562 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3566 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3569 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3570 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3571 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3572 use -X multiple times, too.
3573 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3574 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3578 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3581 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3582 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3586 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3589 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3593 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3596 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3597 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3598 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3599 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3600 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3601 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3602 shape if you're starting a new package.
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3606 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3609 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3613 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3616 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3617 because of missing symlinks.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3621 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3627 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3630 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3631 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3632 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3633 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3634 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3636 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3637 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3641 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3643 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3644 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3645 to be changed after the fact :-)
3646 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3650 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3653 no version string after the -V.
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3657 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3659 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3660 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3665 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3668 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3672 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3675 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3676 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3677 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3678 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3679 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3680 I always welcome corrections!
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3684 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3690 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3693 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3694 * Documented this new switch.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3698 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3701 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3702 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3703 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3704 no packages use the old behavior.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3708 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3711 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3712 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3716 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3719 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3723 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3729 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3732 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3736 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3739 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3740 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3741 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3745 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3751 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3754 into the source package by accident.
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3758 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3761 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3762 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3763 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3764 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3765 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3766 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3771 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3775 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3776 inspired to implement some of it.
3777 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3781 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3784 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3788 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3791 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3792 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3796 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3799 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3800 have done.) (#17598)
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3804 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3810 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3816 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3819 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3823 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3826 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3827 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3831 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3834 argument processor in perl.
3835 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3836 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3837 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3838 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3842 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3845 type directories. (#16933)
3846 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3847 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3848 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3849 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3850 are supported. (#16935)
3851 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3856 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3859 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3863 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3867 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3868 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3869 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3870 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3871 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3872 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3876 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3879 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3880 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3882 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3883 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3884 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3885 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3886 a given package, or -i or -a.
3887 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3888 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3889 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3890 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3891 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3892 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3893 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3894 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3895 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3897 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3898 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3899 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3903 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3906 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3907 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3912 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3915 does not have a section.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3919 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3922 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3923 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3924 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3928 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Fixed typo #16215.
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3934 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3937 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3938 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3939 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3940 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3941 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3946 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3949 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3950 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3951 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3956 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3962 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3968 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3971 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3972 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3973 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3974 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3975 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3976 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3980 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3986 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3989 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3993 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3996 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3997 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3998 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4002 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4005 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4009 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4015 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4018 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4022 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4025 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4029 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4035 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4038 postinst, postrm, etc.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4042 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4048 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4051 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4052 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4053 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4054 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4055 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4059 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4062 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4063 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4067 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4070 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4074 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4077 installing package files into.
4078 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4083 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4087 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4091 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4097 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4100 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4104 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4107 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4108 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4109 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4110 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4114 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4116 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4117 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4118 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4119 multiple binary packages.
4120 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4121 should rebuild them with this version.
4122 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4126 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4129 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4133 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4136 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4140 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4143 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4144 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4145 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4146 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4147 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4148 debian/README.debian.
4149 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4150 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4151 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4152 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4153 in a few situations.)
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4157 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4163 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4169 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4172 * Fixed several man pages.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4176 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4179 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4180 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4184 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4187 is ready for general use.
4188 * Added man pages for all commands.
4189 * Multiple binary package support.
4190 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4191 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4192 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4194 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4195 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4196 auto-installed as parameters.
4197 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4199 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4202 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4203 the package build directory it is to act on.
4204 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4205 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4206 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4210 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4212 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4213 ready to replace debstd.
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400