1 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
7 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
11 Also some indentation fixes.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
15 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
18 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
19 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
20 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
21 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
22 Closes: #106514, #85520
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
26 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Typo, Closes: #104405
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
32 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
38 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
40 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
44 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
50 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
56 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
59 change it in debhelper v4..
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
63 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
69 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
72 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
76 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
78 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
79 is not essential. Closes: #100430
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
83 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
85 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
89 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
92 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
93 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
94 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
95 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
96 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
97 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
98 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
99 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
100 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
101 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
102 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
103 prefixed with ".debhelper")
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
107 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
110 look just like shared libs, but are not.
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
114 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
121 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
124 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
125 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
126 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
127 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
128 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
129 program those options go to. So, for example,
130 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
131 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
132 something complex. Closes: #89311
133 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
137 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
140 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
141 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
142 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
146 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
149 through loop. Closes: #98598
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
153 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Missing semi-colon.
156 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
157 this (dh_* should be called, really).
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
161 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
164 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
165 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
166 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
170 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
173 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
174 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
178 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
181 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
185 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
188 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
189 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
193 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
196 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
197 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
198 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
202 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
205 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
206 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
207 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
211 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
214 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
218 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
224 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Typo, Closes: #92407
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
230 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
236 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
242 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
245 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
249 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
252 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
253 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
254 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
255 followed. Closes: #85483
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
259 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
261 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
262 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
263 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
267 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
270 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
271 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
272 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
273 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
274 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
275 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
276 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
277 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
278 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
279 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
280 Closes: #88464, #77743
281 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
282 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
283 us to deal with that gracefully.
284 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
286 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
287 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
288 a while, Closes: #51225
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
292 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
298 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
301 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
305 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
309 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
314 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
317 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
318 don't make packlist files.
319 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
320 debhelper coding standards.
321 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
322 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
326 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
329 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
333 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
336 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
337 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
338 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
339 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
340 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
341 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
342 but is mildly deprecated.
343 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
344 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
345 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
346 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
347 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
348 switching to statoverrides..
349 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
350 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
351 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
352 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
353 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
354 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
356 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
357 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
358 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
359 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
360 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
361 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
362 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
363 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
364 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
366 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
367 variable names, pod man pages).
368 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
369 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
370 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
371 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
372 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
373 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
374 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
378 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
384 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
391 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
394 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
398 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
400 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
401 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
402 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
406 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
408 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
409 they were previously ignored.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
413 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
415 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
416 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
420 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
422 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
423 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
424 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
428 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
430 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
434 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
436 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
437 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
441 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
443 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
444 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
445 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
446 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
447 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
448 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
449 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
450 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
451 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
452 it is an obsolete program.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
456 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
458 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
462 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
466 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
468 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
472 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
474 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
476 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
478 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
482 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
488 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
490 * typo: Closes, #78567
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
494 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
500 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
506 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
508 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
509 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
510 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
511 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
512 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
513 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
517 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
520 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
525 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
527 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
528 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
529 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
530 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
531 backwards-compatability.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
535 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
537 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
538 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
539 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
540 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
541 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
542 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
543 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
545 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
546 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
547 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
549 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
551 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
552 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
553 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
554 should now be raised to severity important..
555 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
556 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
560 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
563 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
568 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Typo, Closes: #77441
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
574 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
576 * Completed the fix from the last version.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
580 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
586 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
588 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
593 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
596 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
597 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
598 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
599 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
603 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
609 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
612 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
613 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
614 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
615 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
616 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
617 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
622 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
625 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
629 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
635 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
638 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
643 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
646 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
647 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
648 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
649 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
653 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
657 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
660 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
663 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
664 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
667 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
669 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
670 the TODO entry about it.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
674 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
681 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
684 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
685 prevent that. Closes: #73052
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
689 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Typo, Closes: #72932
692 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
693 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
694 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
695 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
699 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
705 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
712 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
715 (this appears to be logal).
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
719 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
722 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
723 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
724 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
725 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
729 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
735 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
737 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
738 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
739 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
740 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
741 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
745 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
751 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
754 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
758 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
765 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
768 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
769 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
770 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
775 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
782 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
788 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
790 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
791 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
792 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
793 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
794 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
795 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
796 notice until v2 is complete.
797 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
798 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
799 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
800 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
801 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
802 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
804 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
805 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
806 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
807 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
811 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
817 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
824 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
827 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
831 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
838 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
841 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
842 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
843 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
844 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
849 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
852 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
853 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
854 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
859 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
862 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
863 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
867 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
870 just skip files that end in -\d+.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
874 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
877 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
881 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
888 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
890 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
891 depend on the build and install targets.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
895 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
898 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
902 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
909 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
915 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
921 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
924 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
925 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
926 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
927 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
928 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
929 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
931 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
932 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
933 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
934 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
935 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
936 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
937 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
941 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
947 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
953 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
956 right place. Closes: #55065
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
960 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
967 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Make all examples rules files executable.
970 * Copyright date updates.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
974 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
977 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
982 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
988 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
995 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1001 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1007 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1013 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1016 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1017 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1018 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1019 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1020 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1021 bits until all files have been registered.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1025 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_installmanpages:
1028 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1029 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1030 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1031 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1032 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1033 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1034 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1035 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1036 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1037 otherwise change the result at all.
1039 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1040 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1041 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1042 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1043 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1048 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1054 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1057 act on files that don't exist.
1058 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1059 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1060 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1062 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1063 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1064 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1065 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1069 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1075 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1081 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1084 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1088 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1091 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1093 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1094 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1095 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1099 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1102 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1103 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1104 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1105 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1106 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1107 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1108 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1110 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1112 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1116 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1123 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1129 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1135 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1138 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1142 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1148 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1154 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1157 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1158 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1159 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1160 I made some changes, though:
1161 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1162 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1163 that is a clear violation of policy.
1164 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1165 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1166 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1167 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1168 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1169 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1170 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1171 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1172 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1174 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1178 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1184 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1187 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1191 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1194 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1195 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1200 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1206 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1213 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1216 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1217 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1218 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1219 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1220 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1221 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1222 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1226 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1232 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1236 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1237 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1241 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1247 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1250 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1254 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1257 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1258 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1262 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1264 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1269 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1273 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1277 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1280 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1281 for the dependancies to be generated.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1285 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1288 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1292 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1295 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1296 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1297 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1302 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1305 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1306 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1310 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1322 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1325 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1329 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1335 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1338 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1339 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1340 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1341 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1342 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1343 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1344 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1345 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1346 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1347 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1348 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1349 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1353 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1356 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1357 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1359 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1360 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1361 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1362 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1363 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1364 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1366 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1367 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1371 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1374 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1378 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1385 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1388 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1393 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1396 for building debhelper.
1397 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1401 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1408 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1411 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1415 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1418 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1419 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1420 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1421 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1422 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1423 it's always available.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1427 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1430 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1431 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1432 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1436 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1439 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1440 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1444 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1450 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1453 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1457 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1463 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1466 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1467 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1468 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1472 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1475 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1480 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1483 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1484 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1486 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1487 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1491 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1503 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1506 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1513 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1514 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1516 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1520 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1523 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1524 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1525 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1529 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1532 things if CDPATH is set.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1536 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1542 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1545 seems to make sense for the transition.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1549 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1552 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1557 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1560 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1561 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1565 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1568 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1572 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1575 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1576 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1577 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1578 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1582 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1588 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1591 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1592 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1593 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1594 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1595 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1596 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1597 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1598 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1599 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1600 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1605 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1608 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1609 * README: mention doc/v2
1610 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1611 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1615 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1617 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1618 be using this script RSN.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1622 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1625 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1626 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1627 more than 1 init script.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1631 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1634 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1638 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Changed perl version detection.
1641 * Changed call to find.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1645 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1648 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1650 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1655 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Really include dh_installpam.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1661 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1664 * Wrote man page for same.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1668 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1671 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1672 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1677 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1684 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1687 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1688 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1689 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1690 x bit was being set!
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1694 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1697 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1698 well. (Closes: 38900)
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1702 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1705 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1706 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1710 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1716 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1723 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1729 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1732 help from Julian Gilbey.
1733 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1734 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1735 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1736 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1737 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1738 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1739 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1744 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1750 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1757 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1763 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1769 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1772 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1776 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1779 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1783 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1786 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1790 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1796 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1799 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1803 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1809 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1815 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1818 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1819 may be deleted. (#35845)
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1823 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Various man page enhancements.
1826 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1831 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1834 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1835 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1839 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1842 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1843 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1844 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1846 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1847 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1852 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1858 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Another very minor typo fix.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1864 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Very minor typo fix.
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1870 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1873 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1874 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1878 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1884 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1887 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1888 variables properly (#34850).
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1892 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1898 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1901 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1902 (automatically generated by build process).
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1906 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1908 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1912 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1915 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1916 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1918 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1922 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1925 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1929 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * README: minor typo fix.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1935 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1938 leave it at that. :-)
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1942 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1948 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1954 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1957 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1958 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1959 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1963 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1966 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1970 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1973 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1977 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1980 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1981 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1982 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1983 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1987 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1990 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1991 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1992 Craig Small for spotting this.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1996 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1999 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2000 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2004 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2010 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2013 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2017 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2019 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2020 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2021 working on the last version of debhelper.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2025 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2028 being made. (#23255)
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2032 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2038 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2041 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2045 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2048 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2049 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2050 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2051 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2055 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2058 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2059 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2060 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2061 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2063 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2064 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2066 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2071 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2077 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2083 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2086 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2087 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2088 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2089 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2090 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2091 suidregister actually supports it.
2092 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2093 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2097 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2104 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2107 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2108 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2109 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2110 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2111 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2112 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2113 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2117 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2119 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2120 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2124 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2127 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2128 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2129 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2130 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2134 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2137 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2139 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2140 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2141 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2142 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2143 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2144 effect, either. (#30118)
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2148 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2154 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2157 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2158 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2162 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2168 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2171 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2172 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2173 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2174 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2178 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2181 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2182 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2186 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2192 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2195 packages, painlessly.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2199 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2205 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2211 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2217 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * The perl conversion is complete.
2221 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2223 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2224 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2225 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2230 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2233 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2234 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2235 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2239 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2242 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2244 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2246 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2247 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2251 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2254 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2255 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2259 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2265 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2268 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2269 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2270 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2271 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2272 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2276 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2279 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2280 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2281 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2282 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2286 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2289 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2293 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2296 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2297 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2298 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2299 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2300 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2301 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2302 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2303 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2307 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2313 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2316 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2317 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2318 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2323 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2326 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2330 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2333 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2337 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2340 sections of shared libraries.
2341 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2342 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2343 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2344 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2345 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2346 things you don't want them to.
2347 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2348 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2352 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2355 shared libraries. (#26414)
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2359 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2361 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2362 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2363 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2364 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2368 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2372 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2374 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2375 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2376 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2377 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2378 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2382 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2385 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2389 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2392 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2393 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2398 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2401 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2405 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2408 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2409 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2410 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2411 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2412 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2414 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2415 remove debian/files properly.
2416 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2417 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2418 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2419 * Removed bogus menu file.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2423 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2426 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2430 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2433 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2434 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2435 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2436 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2437 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2438 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2442 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2445 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2446 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2447 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2448 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2452 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2459 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2462 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2463 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2465 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2466 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2467 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2468 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2469 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2470 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2474 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2477 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2478 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2479 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2480 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2481 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2482 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2483 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2484 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2485 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2486 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2487 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2488 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2489 passed any switches.
2490 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2494 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2497 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2498 at all for a long while.
2499 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2500 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2501 large chunks in the process.
2502 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2503 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2504 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2509 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2512 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2514 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2519 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2522 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2523 that don't always have the same files in them.
2524 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2525 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2526 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2530 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2534 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2535 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2536 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2537 updating 27 man pages.
2538 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2539 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2540 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2541 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2542 programs act on. (#25247)
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2546 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2550 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2551 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2552 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2553 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2554 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2555 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2560 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2567 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2574 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2577 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2581 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2587 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2590 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2591 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2592 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2593 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2594 package by accident.
2595 * Is version 1.0 next?
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2599 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2602 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2603 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2607 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2610 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2611 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2612 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2613 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2614 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2616 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2621 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2624 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2625 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2629 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2632 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2636 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2639 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2640 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2645 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2651 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2654 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2655 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2660 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2666 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2669 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2670 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2671 past week. Thanks, guys!
2673 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2674 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2675 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2676 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2677 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2678 would do in the same situation.
2679 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2680 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2682 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2684 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2685 permissions changed.
2686 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2687 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2688 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2689 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2690 files are treated identically.
2691 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2692 * Minor man page fixes.
2693 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2694 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2695 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2699 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2702 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2703 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2704 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2705 use -X multiple times, too.
2706 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2707 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2711 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2714 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2715 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2719 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2722 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2726 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2729 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2730 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2731 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2732 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2733 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2734 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2735 shape if you're starting a new package.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2739 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2742 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2746 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2749 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2750 because of missing symlinks.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2754 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2760 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2763 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2764 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2765 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2766 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2767 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2769 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2770 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2774 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2776 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2777 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2778 to be changed after the fact :-)
2779 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2783 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2786 no version string after the -V.
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2790 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2792 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2793 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2798 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2801 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2805 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2808 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2809 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2810 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2811 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2812 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2813 I always welcome corrections!
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2817 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2823 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2826 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2827 * Documented this new switch.
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2831 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2834 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2835 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2836 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2837 no packages use the old behavior.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2841 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2844 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2845 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2849 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2852 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2856 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2862 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2865 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2869 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2872 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2873 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2874 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2878 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2884 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2887 into the source package by accident.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2891 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2894 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2895 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2896 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2897 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2898 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2899 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2904 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2908 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2909 inspired to implement some of it.
2910 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2914 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2917 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2921 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2924 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2925 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2929 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2932 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2933 have done.) (#17598)
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2937 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2943 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2949 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2952 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2956 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2959 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2960 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2964 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2967 argument processor in perl.
2968 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2969 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2970 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2971 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2975 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2978 type directories. (#16933)
2979 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2980 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2981 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2982 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2983 are supported. (#16935)
2984 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2989 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2992 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2996 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3000 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3001 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3002 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3003 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3004 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3005 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3009 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3012 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3013 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3015 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3016 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3017 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3018 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3019 a given package, or -i or -a.
3020 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3021 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3022 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3023 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3024 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3025 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3026 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3027 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3028 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3030 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3031 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3032 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3036 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3039 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3040 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3045 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3048 does not have a section.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3052 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3055 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3056 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3057 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3061 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Fixed typo #16215.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3067 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3070 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3071 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3072 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3073 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3074 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3079 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3082 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3083 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3084 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3089 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3095 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3101 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3104 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3105 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3106 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3107 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3108 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3109 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3113 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3119 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3122 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3126 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3129 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3130 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3131 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3135 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3138 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3142 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3148 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3151 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3155 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3158 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3162 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3168 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3171 postinst, postrm, etc.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3175 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3181 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3184 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3185 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3186 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3187 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3188 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3192 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3195 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3196 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3200 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3203 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3207 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3210 installing package files into.
3211 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3216 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3220 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3224 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3230 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3233 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3237 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3240 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3241 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3242 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3243 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3247 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3249 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3250 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3251 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3252 multiple binary packages.
3253 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3254 should rebuild them with this version.
3255 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3259 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3262 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3266 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3269 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3273 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3276 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3277 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3278 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3279 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3280 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3281 debian/README.debian.
3282 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3283 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3284 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3285 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3286 in a few situations.)
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3290 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3296 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3302 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3305 * Fixed several man pages.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3309 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3312 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3313 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3317 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3320 is ready for general use.
3321 * Added man pages for all commands.
3322 * Multiple binary package support.
3323 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3324 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3325 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3327 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3328 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3329 auto-installed as parameters.
3330 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3332 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3335 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3336 the package build directory it is to act on.
3337 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3338 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3339 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3343 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3345 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3346 ready to replace debstd.
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400