1 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
7 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
14 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
17 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
22 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
28 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
34 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
40 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
47 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
50 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
51 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
52 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
53 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
58 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Typo, Closes: #155323
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
64 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
71 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
74 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
75 * Removed dh_installxaw.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
79 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
82 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
83 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
84 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
85 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
86 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
90 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
93 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
95 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
100 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
102 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
103 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
107 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
110 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
111 right thing. Closes: #150644
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
115 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
122 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
124 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
129 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
132 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
133 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
138 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
144 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
147 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
151 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
154 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
155 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
160 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
162 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
163 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
167 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
173 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
176 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
177 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
181 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
187 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Removing perl warning message.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
193 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
196 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
197 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
198 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
199 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
200 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
201 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
202 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
203 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
207 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
213 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
220 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
223 debconf-mergetemplate.
224 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
225 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
229 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
232 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
233 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
234 dh_install, which ...
235 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
236 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
237 mess, as it uses debian/install.
238 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
239 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
240 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
241 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
242 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
243 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
244 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
245 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
246 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
247 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
248 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
250 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
251 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
252 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
253 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
254 course there's -X ..)
255 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
256 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
257 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
259 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
260 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
261 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
262 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
263 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
268 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
274 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Typo, Closes: #139176
277 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
281 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
287 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
293 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
299 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
305 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
308 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
309 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
310 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
311 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
313 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
314 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
318 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
324 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Typo, Closes: #132454
327 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
331 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
333 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
334 upset. Closes: #131322
336 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
338 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
341 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
342 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
343 line, as well as in debian/rules.
344 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
345 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
346 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
347 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
348 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
349 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
350 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
351 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
352 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
353 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
354 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
355 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
357 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
361 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
364 - Better indenting of generated code.
365 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
369 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
373 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
374 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
375 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
376 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
377 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
378 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
379 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
383 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
386 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
390 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
393 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
394 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
395 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
396 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
397 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
398 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
399 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
400 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
401 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
402 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
403 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
404 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
405 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
406 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
407 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
412 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
418 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
421 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
422 * fixed dh_testdir man page
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
426 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Typo, Closes: #122679
429 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
430 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
434 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
440 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
443 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
444 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
445 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
446 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
447 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
452 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
454 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
458 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
461 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
465 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
467 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
468 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
473 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Typo, Closes: #114135
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
479 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
482 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
486 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
492 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
496 Also some indentation fixes.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
500 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
503 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
504 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
505 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
506 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
507 Closes: #106514, #85520
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
511 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Typo, Closes: #104405
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
517 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
523 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
525 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
529 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
535 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
541 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
544 change it in debhelper v4..
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
548 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
554 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
557 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
561 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
563 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
564 is not essential. Closes: #100430
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
568 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
574 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
577 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
578 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
579 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
580 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
581 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
582 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
583 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
584 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
585 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
586 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
587 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
588 prefixed with ".debhelper")
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
592 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
595 look just like shared libs, but are not.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
599 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
606 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
609 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
610 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
611 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
612 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
613 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
614 program those options go to. So, for example,
615 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
616 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
617 something complex. Closes: #89311
618 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
622 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
625 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
626 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
627 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
631 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
634 through loop. Closes: #98598
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
638 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Missing semi-colon.
641 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
642 this (dh_* should be called, really).
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
646 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
648 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
649 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
650 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
651 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
655 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
658 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
659 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
663 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
666 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
670 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
673 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
674 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
678 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
681 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
682 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
683 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
687 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
690 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
691 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
692 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
696 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
699 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
703 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
709 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Typo, Closes: #92407
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
715 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
717 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
721 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
727 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
730 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
734 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
736 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
737 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
738 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
739 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
740 followed. Closes: #85483
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
744 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
746 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
747 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
748 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
752 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
755 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
756 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
757 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
758 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
759 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
760 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
761 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
762 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
763 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
764 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
765 Closes: #88464, #77743
766 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
767 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
768 us to deal with that gracefully.
769 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
771 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
772 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
773 a while, Closes: #51225
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
777 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
783 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
786 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
790 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
794 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
799 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
802 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
803 don't make packlist files.
804 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
805 debhelper coding standards.
806 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
807 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
811 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
814 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
818 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
821 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
822 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
823 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
824 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
825 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
826 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
827 but is mildly deprecated.
828 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
829 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
830 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
831 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
832 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
833 switching to statoverrides..
834 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
835 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
836 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
837 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
838 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
839 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
841 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
842 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
843 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
844 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
845 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
846 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
847 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
848 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
849 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
851 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
852 variable names, pod man pages).
853 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
854 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
855 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
856 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
857 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
858 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
859 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
863 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
869 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
876 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
879 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
883 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
885 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
886 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
887 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
891 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
893 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
894 they were previously ignored.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
898 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
900 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
901 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
905 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
907 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
908 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
909 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
913 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
915 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
919 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
921 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
922 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
926 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
928 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
929 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
930 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
931 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
932 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
933 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
934 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
935 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
936 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
937 it is an obsolete program.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
941 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
943 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
947 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
951 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
953 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
957 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
959 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
961 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
963 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
967 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
973 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
975 * typo: Closes, #78567
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
979 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
985 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
991 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
993 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
994 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
995 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
996 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
997 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
998 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1002 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1005 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1010 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1013 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1014 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1015 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1016 backwards-compatability.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1020 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1023 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1024 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1025 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1026 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1027 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1028 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1030 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1031 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1032 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1034 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1036 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1037 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1038 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1039 should now be raised to severity important..
1040 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1041 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1045 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1048 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1053 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1059 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1065 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1071 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1078 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1081 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1082 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1083 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1084 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1088 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1094 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1097 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1098 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1099 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1100 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1101 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1102 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1107 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1110 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1114 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1120 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1123 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1128 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1131 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1132 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1133 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1134 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1138 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1142 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1145 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1148 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1149 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1152 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1154 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1155 the TODO entry about it.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1166 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1169 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1170 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1174 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1177 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1178 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1179 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1180 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1184 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1190 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1197 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1200 (this appears to be logal).
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1204 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1207 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1208 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1209 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1210 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1214 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1220 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1223 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1224 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1225 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1226 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1230 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1236 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1239 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1243 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1250 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1253 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1254 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1255 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1260 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1273 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1276 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1277 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1278 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1279 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1280 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1281 notice until v2 is complete.
1282 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1283 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1284 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1285 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1286 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1287 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1289 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1290 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1291 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1292 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1296 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1302 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1309 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1312 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1323 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1326 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1327 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1328 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1329 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1334 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1337 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1338 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1339 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1344 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1347 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1348 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1352 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1355 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1359 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1362 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1366 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1373 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1376 depend on the build and install targets.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1380 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1383 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1387 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1394 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1400 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1406 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1409 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1410 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1411 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1412 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1413 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1414 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1416 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1417 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1418 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1419 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1420 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1421 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1422 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1426 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1432 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1438 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1441 right place. Closes: #55065
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1445 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1452 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1455 * Copyright date updates.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1459 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1462 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1467 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1473 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1480 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1486 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1492 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1498 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1501 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1502 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1503 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1504 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1505 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1506 bits until all files have been registered.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1510 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_installmanpages:
1513 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1514 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1515 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1516 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1517 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1518 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1519 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1520 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1521 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1522 otherwise change the result at all.
1524 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1525 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1526 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1527 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1528 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1533 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1539 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1542 act on files that don't exist.
1543 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1544 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1545 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1547 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1548 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1549 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1550 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1554 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1560 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1566 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1569 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1573 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1576 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1578 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1579 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1580 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1584 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1587 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1588 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1589 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1590 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1591 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1592 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1593 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1595 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1597 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1601 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1608 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1614 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1620 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1623 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1627 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1633 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1639 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1642 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1643 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1644 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1645 I made some changes, though:
1646 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1647 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1648 that is a clear violation of policy.
1649 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1650 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1651 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1652 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1653 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1654 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1655 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1656 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1657 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1659 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1663 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1669 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1672 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1676 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1679 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1680 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1685 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1691 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1698 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1701 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1702 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1703 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1704 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1705 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1706 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1707 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1711 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1717 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1721 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1722 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1726 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1732 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1735 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1739 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1742 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1743 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1747 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1749 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1754 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1758 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1762 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1765 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1766 for the dependancies to be generated.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1770 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1773 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1777 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1780 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1781 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1782 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1787 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1790 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1791 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1795 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1801 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1807 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1810 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1814 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1820 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1823 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1824 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1825 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1826 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1827 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1828 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1829 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1830 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1831 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1832 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1833 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1834 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1838 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1841 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1842 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1844 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1845 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1846 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1847 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1848 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1849 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1851 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1852 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1856 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1859 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1863 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1870 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1873 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1878 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1881 for building debhelper.
1882 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1886 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1893 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1896 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1900 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1903 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1904 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1905 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1906 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1907 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1908 it's always available.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1912 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1915 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1916 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1917 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1921 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1924 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1925 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1929 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1935 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1938 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1942 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1948 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1951 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1952 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1953 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1957 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1960 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1965 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1968 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1969 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1971 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1972 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1976 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1982 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1988 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1991 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1995 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1998 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1999 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2001 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2005 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2008 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2009 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2010 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2014 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2017 things if CDPATH is set.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2021 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2027 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2030 seems to make sense for the transition.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2034 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2037 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2042 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2045 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2046 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2050 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2053 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2057 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2060 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2061 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2062 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2063 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2067 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2073 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2076 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2077 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2078 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2079 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2080 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2081 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2082 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2083 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2084 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2085 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2090 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2093 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2094 * README: mention doc/v2
2095 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2096 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2100 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2102 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2103 be using this script RSN.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2107 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2110 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2111 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2112 more than 1 init script.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2116 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2119 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2123 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Changed perl version detection.
2126 * Changed call to find.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2130 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2133 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2135 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2140 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Really include dh_installpam.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2146 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2149 * Wrote man page for same.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2153 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2156 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2157 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2162 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2169 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2172 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2173 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2174 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2175 x bit was being set!
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2179 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2182 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2183 well. (Closes: 38900)
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2187 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2190 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2191 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2195 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2201 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2208 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2214 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2217 help from Julian Gilbey.
2218 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2219 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2220 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2221 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2222 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2223 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2224 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2229 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2235 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2242 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2248 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2254 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2257 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2261 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2264 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2268 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2271 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2275 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2281 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2284 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2288 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2294 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2300 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2303 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2304 may be deleted. (#35845)
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2308 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Various man page enhancements.
2311 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2316 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2319 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2320 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2324 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2327 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2328 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2329 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2331 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2332 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2337 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2343 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Another very minor typo fix.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2349 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Very minor typo fix.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2355 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2358 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2359 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2363 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2369 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2372 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2373 variables properly (#34850).
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2377 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2383 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2386 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2387 (automatically generated by build process).
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2391 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2393 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2397 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2400 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2401 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2403 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2407 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2410 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2414 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * README: minor typo fix.
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2420 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2423 leave it at that. :-)
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2427 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2433 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2439 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2442 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2443 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2444 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2448 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2451 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2455 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2458 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2462 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2465 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2466 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2467 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2468 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2472 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2475 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2476 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2477 Craig Small for spotting this.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2481 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2484 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2485 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2489 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2495 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2498 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2502 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2504 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2505 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2506 working on the last version of debhelper.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2510 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2513 being made. (#23255)
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2517 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2523 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2526 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2530 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2533 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2534 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2535 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2536 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2540 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2543 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2544 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2545 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2546 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2548 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2549 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2551 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2556 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2562 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2568 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2571 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2572 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2573 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2574 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2575 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2576 suidregister actually supports it.
2577 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2578 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2582 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2589 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2592 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2593 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2594 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2595 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2596 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2597 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2598 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2602 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2604 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2605 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2609 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2612 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2613 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2614 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2615 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2619 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2622 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2624 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2625 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2626 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2627 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2628 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2629 effect, either. (#30118)
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2633 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2639 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2642 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2643 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2647 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2653 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2656 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2657 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2658 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2659 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2663 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2666 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2667 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2671 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2677 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2680 packages, painlessly.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2684 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2690 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2696 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2702 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * The perl conversion is complete.
2706 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2708 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2709 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2710 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2715 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2718 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2719 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2720 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2724 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2727 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2729 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2731 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2732 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2736 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2739 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2740 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2744 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2750 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2753 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2754 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2755 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2756 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2757 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2761 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2764 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2765 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2766 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2767 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2771 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2774 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2778 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2781 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2782 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2783 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2784 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2785 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2786 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2787 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2788 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2792 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2798 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2801 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2802 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2803 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2808 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2811 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2815 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2818 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2822 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2825 sections of shared libraries.
2826 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2827 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2828 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2829 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2830 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2831 things you don't want them to.
2832 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2833 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2837 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2840 shared libraries. (#26414)
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2844 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2846 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2847 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2848 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2849 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2853 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2857 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2859 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2860 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2861 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2862 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2863 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2867 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2870 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2874 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2877 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2878 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2883 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2886 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2890 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2893 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2894 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2895 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2896 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2897 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2899 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2900 remove debian/files properly.
2901 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2902 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2903 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2904 * Removed bogus menu file.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2908 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2911 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2915 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2918 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2919 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2920 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2921 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2922 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2923 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2927 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2930 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2931 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2932 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2933 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2937 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2944 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2947 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2948 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2950 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2951 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2952 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2953 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2954 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2955 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2959 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2962 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2963 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2964 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2965 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2966 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2967 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2968 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2969 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2970 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2971 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2972 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2973 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2974 passed any switches.
2975 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2979 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2982 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2983 at all for a long while.
2984 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2985 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2986 large chunks in the process.
2987 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2988 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2989 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2994 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2997 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2999 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3004 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3007 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3008 that don't always have the same files in them.
3009 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3010 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3011 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3015 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3019 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3020 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3021 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3022 updating 27 man pages.
3023 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3024 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3025 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3026 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3027 programs act on. (#25247)
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3031 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3035 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3036 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3037 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3038 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3039 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3040 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3045 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3052 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3059 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3062 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3066 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3072 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3075 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3076 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3077 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3078 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3079 package by accident.
3080 * Is version 1.0 next?
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3084 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3087 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3088 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3092 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3095 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3096 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3097 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3098 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3099 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3101 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3106 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3109 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3110 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3114 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3117 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3121 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3124 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3125 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3130 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3136 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3139 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3140 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3145 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3151 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3154 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3155 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3156 past week. Thanks, guys!
3158 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3159 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3160 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3161 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3162 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3163 would do in the same situation.
3164 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3165 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3167 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3169 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3170 permissions changed.
3171 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3172 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3173 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3174 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3175 files are treated identically.
3176 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3177 * Minor man page fixes.
3178 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3179 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3180 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3184 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3187 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3188 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3189 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3190 use -X multiple times, too.
3191 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3192 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3196 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3199 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3200 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3204 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3207 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3211 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3214 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3215 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3216 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3217 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3218 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3219 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3220 shape if you're starting a new package.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3224 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3227 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3231 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3234 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3235 because of missing symlinks.
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3239 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3245 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3248 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3249 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3250 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3251 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3252 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3254 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3255 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3259 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3261 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3262 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3263 to be changed after the fact :-)
3264 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3268 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3271 no version string after the -V.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3275 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3277 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3278 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3283 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3286 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3290 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3293 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3294 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3295 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3296 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3297 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3298 I always welcome corrections!
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3302 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3308 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3311 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3312 * Documented this new switch.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3316 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3319 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3320 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3321 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3322 no packages use the old behavior.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3326 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3329 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3330 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3334 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3337 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3341 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3347 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3350 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3354 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3357 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3358 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3359 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3363 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3369 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3372 into the source package by accident.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3376 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3379 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3380 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3381 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3382 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3383 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3384 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3389 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3393 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3394 inspired to implement some of it.
3395 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3399 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3402 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3406 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3409 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3410 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3414 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3417 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3418 have done.) (#17598)
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3422 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3428 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3434 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3437 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3441 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3444 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3445 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3449 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3452 argument processor in perl.
3453 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3454 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3455 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3456 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3460 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3463 type directories. (#16933)
3464 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3465 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3466 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3467 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3468 are supported. (#16935)
3469 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3474 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3477 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3481 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3485 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3486 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3487 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3488 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3489 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3490 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3494 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3497 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3498 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3500 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3501 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3502 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3503 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3504 a given package, or -i or -a.
3505 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3506 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3507 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3508 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3509 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3510 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3511 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3512 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3513 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3515 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3516 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3517 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3521 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3524 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3525 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3530 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3533 does not have a section.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3537 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3540 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3541 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3542 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3546 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Fixed typo #16215.
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3552 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3555 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3556 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3557 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3558 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3559 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3564 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3567 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3568 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3569 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3574 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3580 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3586 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3589 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3590 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3591 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3592 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3593 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3594 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3598 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3604 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3607 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3611 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3614 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3615 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3616 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3620 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3623 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3627 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3633 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3636 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3640 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3643 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3647 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3653 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3656 postinst, postrm, etc.
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3660 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3666 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3669 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3670 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3671 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3672 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3673 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3677 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3680 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3681 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3685 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3688 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3692 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3695 installing package files into.
3696 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3701 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3705 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3709 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3715 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3718 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3722 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3725 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3726 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3727 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3728 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3732 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3734 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3735 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3736 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3737 multiple binary packages.
3738 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3739 should rebuild them with this version.
3740 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3744 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3747 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3751 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3754 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3758 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3761 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3762 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3763 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3764 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3765 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3766 debian/README.debian.
3767 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3768 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3769 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3770 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3771 in a few situations.)
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3775 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3781 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3787 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3790 * Fixed several man pages.
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3794 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3797 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3798 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3802 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3805 is ready for general use.
3806 * Added man pages for all commands.
3807 * Multiple binary package support.
3808 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3809 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3810 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3812 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3813 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3814 auto-installed as parameters.
3815 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3817 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3820 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3821 the package build directory it is to act on.
3822 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3823 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3824 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3828 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3830 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3831 ready to replace debstd.
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400