1 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Removing perl warning message.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
7 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
10 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
11 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
12 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
13 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
14 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
15 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
16 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
17 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
21 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
27 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
34 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
37 debconf-mergetemplate.
38 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
39 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
43 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
46 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
47 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
49 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
50 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
51 mess, as it uses debian/install.
52 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
53 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
54 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
55 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
56 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
57 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
58 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
59 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
60 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
61 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
62 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
64 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
65 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
66 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
67 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
69 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
70 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
71 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
73 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
74 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
75 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
76 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
77 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
82 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
88 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Typo, Closes: #139176
91 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
95 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
101 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
107 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
113 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
119 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
121 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
122 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
123 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
124 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
125 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
127 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
128 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
132 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
138 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Typo, Closes: #132454
141 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
145 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
148 upset. Closes: #131322
150 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
152 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
155 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
156 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
157 line, as well as in debian/rules.
158 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
159 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
160 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
161 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
162 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
163 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
164 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
165 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
166 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
167 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
168 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
169 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
171 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
175 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
178 - Better indenting of generated code.
179 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
183 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
187 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
188 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
189 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
190 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
191 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
192 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
193 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
197 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
200 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
204 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
207 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
208 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
209 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
210 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
211 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
212 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
213 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
214 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
215 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
216 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
217 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
218 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
219 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
220 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
221 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
226 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
232 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
235 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
236 * fixed dh_testdir man page
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
240 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Typo, Closes: #122679
243 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
244 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
248 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
254 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
257 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
258 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
259 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
260 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
261 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
266 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
268 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
272 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
274 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
275 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
279 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
282 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
287 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Typo, Closes: #114135
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
293 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
296 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
300 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
306 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
310 Also some indentation fixes.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
314 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
317 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
318 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
319 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
320 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
321 Closes: #106514, #85520
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
325 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Typo, Closes: #104405
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
331 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
333 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
337 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
339 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
343 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
345 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
349 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
355 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
358 change it in debhelper v4..
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
362 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
368 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
371 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
375 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
378 is not essential. Closes: #100430
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
382 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
388 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
391 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
392 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
393 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
394 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
395 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
396 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
397 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
398 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
399 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
400 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
401 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
402 prefixed with ".debhelper")
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
406 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
409 look just like shared libs, but are not.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
413 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
420 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
423 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
424 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
425 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
426 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
427 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
428 program those options go to. So, for example,
429 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
430 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
431 something complex. Closes: #89311
432 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
436 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
439 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
440 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
441 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
445 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
448 through loop. Closes: #98598
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
452 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Missing semi-colon.
455 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
456 this (dh_* should be called, really).
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
460 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
463 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
464 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
465 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
469 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
472 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
473 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
477 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
480 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
484 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
487 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
488 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
492 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
495 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
496 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
497 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
501 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
504 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
505 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
506 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
510 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
513 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
517 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
523 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Typo, Closes: #92407
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
529 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
535 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
541 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
544 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
548 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
551 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
552 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
553 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
554 followed. Closes: #85483
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
558 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
560 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
561 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
562 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
566 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
569 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
570 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
571 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
572 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
573 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
574 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
575 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
576 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
577 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
578 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
579 Closes: #88464, #77743
580 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
581 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
582 us to deal with that gracefully.
583 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
585 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
586 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
587 a while, Closes: #51225
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
591 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
597 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
600 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
604 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
608 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
613 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
616 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
617 don't make packlist files.
618 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
619 debhelper coding standards.
620 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
621 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
625 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
628 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
632 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
635 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
636 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
637 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
638 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
639 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
640 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
641 but is mildly deprecated.
642 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
643 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
644 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
645 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
646 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
647 switching to statoverrides..
648 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
649 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
650 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
651 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
652 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
653 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
655 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
656 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
657 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
658 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
659 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
660 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
661 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
662 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
663 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
665 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
666 variable names, pod man pages).
667 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
668 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
669 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
670 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
671 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
672 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
673 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
677 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
683 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
690 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
693 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
697 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
699 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
700 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
701 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
705 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
707 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
708 they were previously ignored.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
712 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
714 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
715 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
719 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
721 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
722 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
723 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
727 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
729 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
733 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
735 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
736 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
740 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
742 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
743 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
744 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
745 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
746 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
747 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
748 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
749 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
750 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
751 it is an obsolete program.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
755 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
757 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
761 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
765 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
767 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
771 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
773 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
775 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
777 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
781 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
787 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
789 * typo: Closes, #78567
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
793 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
799 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
805 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
807 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
808 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
809 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
810 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
811 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
812 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
816 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
819 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
824 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
827 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
828 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
829 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
830 backwards-compatability.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
834 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
836 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
837 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
838 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
839 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
840 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
841 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
842 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
844 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
845 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
846 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
848 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
850 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
851 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
852 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
853 should now be raised to severity important..
854 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
855 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
859 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
862 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
867 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Typo, Closes: #77441
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
873 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Completed the fix from the last version.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
879 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
885 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
887 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
892 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
895 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
896 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
897 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
898 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
902 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
908 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
911 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
912 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
913 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
914 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
915 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
916 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
921 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
924 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
928 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
934 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
937 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
942 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
945 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
946 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
947 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
948 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
952 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
956 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
959 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
961 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
962 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
963 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
966 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
968 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
969 the TODO entry about it.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
973 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
980 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
983 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
984 prevent that. Closes: #73052
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
988 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
990 * Typo, Closes: #72932
991 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
992 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
993 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
994 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
998 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1004 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1011 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1014 (this appears to be logal).
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1018 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1021 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1022 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1023 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1024 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1028 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1034 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1037 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1038 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1039 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1040 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1044 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1050 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1053 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1057 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1064 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1067 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1068 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1069 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1074 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1081 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1087 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1090 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1091 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1092 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1093 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1094 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1095 notice until v2 is complete.
1096 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1097 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1098 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1099 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1100 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1101 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1103 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1104 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1105 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1106 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1110 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1116 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1123 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1126 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1130 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1137 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1140 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1141 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1142 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1143 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1148 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1151 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1152 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1153 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1158 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1161 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1162 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1166 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1169 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1173 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1176 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1180 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1187 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1190 depend on the build and install targets.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1194 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1197 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1201 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1208 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1214 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1220 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1223 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1224 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1225 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1226 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1227 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1228 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1230 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1231 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1232 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1233 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1234 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1235 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1236 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1240 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1246 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1252 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1255 right place. Closes: #55065
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1259 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1266 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1269 * Copyright date updates.
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1273 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1276 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1281 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1287 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1294 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1300 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1306 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1312 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1315 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1316 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1317 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1318 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1319 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1320 bits until all files have been registered.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1324 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_installmanpages:
1327 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1328 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1329 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1330 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1331 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1332 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1333 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1334 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1335 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1336 otherwise change the result at all.
1338 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1339 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1340 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1341 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1342 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1347 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1353 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1356 act on files that don't exist.
1357 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1358 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1359 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1361 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1362 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1363 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1364 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1368 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1374 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1380 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1383 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1387 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1390 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1392 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1393 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1394 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1398 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1401 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1402 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1403 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1404 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1405 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1406 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1407 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1409 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1411 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1415 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1422 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1428 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1434 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1437 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1441 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1447 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1453 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1456 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1457 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1458 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1459 I made some changes, though:
1460 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1461 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1462 that is a clear violation of policy.
1463 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1464 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1465 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1466 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1467 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1468 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1469 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1470 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1471 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1473 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1477 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1483 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1486 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1490 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1493 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1494 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1499 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1505 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1512 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1515 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1516 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1517 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1518 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1519 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1520 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1521 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1525 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1531 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1535 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1536 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1540 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1546 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1549 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1553 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1556 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1557 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1561 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1563 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1568 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1572 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1576 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1579 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1580 for the dependancies to be generated.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1584 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1587 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1591 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1594 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1595 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1596 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1601 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1604 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1605 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1609 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1615 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1621 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1624 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1628 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1634 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1637 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1638 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1639 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1640 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1641 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1642 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1643 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1644 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1645 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1646 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1647 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1648 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1652 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1655 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1656 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1658 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1659 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1660 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1661 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1662 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1663 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1665 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1666 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1670 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1673 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1677 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1684 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1687 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1692 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1695 for building debhelper.
1696 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1700 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1707 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1710 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1714 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1717 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1718 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1719 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1720 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1721 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1722 it's always available.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1726 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1729 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1730 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1731 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1735 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1738 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1739 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1743 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1749 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1752 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1756 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1762 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1765 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1766 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1767 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1771 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1774 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1779 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1782 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1783 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1785 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1786 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1790 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1796 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1802 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1805 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1809 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1812 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1813 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1815 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1819 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1822 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1823 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1824 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1828 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1831 things if CDPATH is set.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1835 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1841 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1844 seems to make sense for the transition.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1848 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1851 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1856 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1859 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1860 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1864 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1867 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1871 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1874 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1875 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1876 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1877 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1881 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1887 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1890 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1891 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1892 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1893 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1894 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1895 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1896 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1897 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1898 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1899 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1904 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1907 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1908 * README: mention doc/v2
1909 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1910 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1914 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1916 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1917 be using this script RSN.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1921 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1924 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1925 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1926 more than 1 init script.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1930 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1933 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1937 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Changed perl version detection.
1940 * Changed call to find.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1944 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1947 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1949 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1954 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Really include dh_installpam.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1960 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1963 * Wrote man page for same.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1967 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1970 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1971 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1976 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1983 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1986 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1987 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1988 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1989 x bit was being set!
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1993 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1996 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1997 well. (Closes: 38900)
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2001 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2004 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2005 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2009 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2015 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2022 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2028 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2031 help from Julian Gilbey.
2032 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2033 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2034 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2035 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2036 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2037 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2038 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2043 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2049 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2056 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2062 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2068 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2071 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2075 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2078 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2082 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2085 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2089 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2095 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2098 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2102 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2108 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2114 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2117 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2118 may be deleted. (#35845)
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2122 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Various man page enhancements.
2125 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2130 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2133 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2134 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2138 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2141 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2142 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2143 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2145 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2146 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2151 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2157 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Another very minor typo fix.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2163 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Very minor typo fix.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2169 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2172 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2173 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2177 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2183 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2186 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2187 variables properly (#34850).
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2191 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2197 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2200 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2201 (automatically generated by build process).
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2205 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2207 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2211 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2214 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2215 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2217 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2221 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2224 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2228 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * README: minor typo fix.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2234 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2237 leave it at that. :-)
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2241 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2247 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2253 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2256 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2257 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2258 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2262 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2265 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2269 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2272 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2276 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2279 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2280 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2281 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2282 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2286 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2289 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2290 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2291 Craig Small for spotting this.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2295 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2298 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2299 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2303 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2309 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2312 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2316 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2318 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2319 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2320 working on the last version of debhelper.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2324 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2327 being made. (#23255)
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2331 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2337 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2340 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2344 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2347 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2348 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2349 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2350 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2354 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2357 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2358 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2359 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2360 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2362 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2363 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2365 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2370 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2376 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2382 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2385 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2386 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2387 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2388 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2389 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2390 suidregister actually supports it.
2391 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2392 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2396 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2403 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2406 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2407 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2408 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2409 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2410 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2411 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2412 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2416 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2418 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2419 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2423 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2426 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2427 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2428 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2429 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2433 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2436 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2438 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2439 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2440 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2441 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2442 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2443 effect, either. (#30118)
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2447 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2453 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2456 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2457 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2461 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2467 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2470 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2471 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2472 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2473 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2477 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2480 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2481 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2485 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2491 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2494 packages, painlessly.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2498 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2504 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2510 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2516 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * The perl conversion is complete.
2520 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2522 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2523 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2524 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2529 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2532 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2533 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2534 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2538 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2541 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2543 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2545 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2546 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2550 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2553 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2554 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2558 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2564 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2567 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2568 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2569 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2570 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2571 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2575 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2578 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2579 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2580 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2581 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2585 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2588 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2592 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2595 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2596 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2597 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2598 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2599 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2600 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2601 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2602 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2606 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2612 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2615 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2616 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2617 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2622 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2625 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2629 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2632 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2636 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2639 sections of shared libraries.
2640 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2641 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2642 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2643 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2644 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2645 things you don't want them to.
2646 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2647 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2651 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2654 shared libraries. (#26414)
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2658 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2660 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2661 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2662 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2663 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2667 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2671 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2673 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2674 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2675 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2676 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2677 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2681 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2684 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2688 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2691 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2692 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2697 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2700 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2704 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2707 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2708 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2709 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2710 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2711 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2713 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2714 remove debian/files properly.
2715 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2716 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2717 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2718 * Removed bogus menu file.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2722 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2725 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2729 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2732 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2733 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2734 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2735 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2736 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2737 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2741 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2744 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2745 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2746 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2747 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2751 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2758 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2761 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2762 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2764 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2765 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2766 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2767 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2768 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2769 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2773 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2776 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2777 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2778 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2779 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2780 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2781 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2782 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2783 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2784 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2785 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2786 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2787 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2788 passed any switches.
2789 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2793 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2796 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2797 at all for a long while.
2798 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2799 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2800 large chunks in the process.
2801 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2802 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2803 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2808 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2811 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2813 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2818 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2821 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2822 that don't always have the same files in them.
2823 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2824 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2825 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2829 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2833 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2834 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2835 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2836 updating 27 man pages.
2837 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2838 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2839 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2840 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2841 programs act on. (#25247)
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2845 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2849 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2850 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2851 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2852 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2853 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2854 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2859 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2866 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2873 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2876 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2880 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2886 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2889 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2890 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2891 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2892 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2893 package by accident.
2894 * Is version 1.0 next?
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2898 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2901 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2902 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2906 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2909 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2910 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2911 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2912 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2913 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2915 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2920 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2923 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2924 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2928 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2931 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2935 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2938 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2939 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2944 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2950 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2953 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2954 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2959 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2965 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2968 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2969 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2970 past week. Thanks, guys!
2972 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2973 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2974 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2975 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2976 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2977 would do in the same situation.
2978 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2979 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2981 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2983 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2984 permissions changed.
2985 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2986 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2987 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2988 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2989 files are treated identically.
2990 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2991 * Minor man page fixes.
2992 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2993 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2994 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2998 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3001 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3002 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3003 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3004 use -X multiple times, too.
3005 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3006 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3010 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3013 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3014 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3018 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3021 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3025 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3028 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3029 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3030 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3031 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3032 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3033 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3034 shape if you're starting a new package.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3038 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3041 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3045 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3048 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3049 because of missing symlinks.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3053 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3059 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3062 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3063 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3064 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3065 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3066 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3068 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3069 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3073 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3075 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3076 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3077 to be changed after the fact :-)
3078 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3082 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3085 no version string after the -V.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3089 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3091 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3092 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3097 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3100 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3104 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3107 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3108 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3109 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3110 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3111 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3112 I always welcome corrections!
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3116 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3122 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3125 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3126 * Documented this new switch.
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3130 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3133 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3134 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3135 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3136 no packages use the old behavior.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3140 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3143 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3144 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3148 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3151 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3155 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3161 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3164 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3168 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3171 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3172 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3173 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3177 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3183 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3186 into the source package by accident.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3190 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3193 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3194 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3195 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3196 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3197 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3198 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3203 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3207 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3208 inspired to implement some of it.
3209 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3213 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3216 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3220 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3223 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3224 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3228 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3231 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3232 have done.) (#17598)
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3236 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3242 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3248 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3251 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3255 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3258 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3259 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3263 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3266 argument processor in perl.
3267 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3268 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3269 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3270 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3274 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3277 type directories. (#16933)
3278 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3279 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3280 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3281 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3282 are supported. (#16935)
3283 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3288 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3291 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3295 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3299 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3300 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3301 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3302 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3303 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3304 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3308 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3311 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3312 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3314 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3315 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3316 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3317 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3318 a given package, or -i or -a.
3319 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3320 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3321 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3322 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3323 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3324 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3325 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3326 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3327 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3329 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3330 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3331 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3335 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3338 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3339 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3344 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3347 does not have a section.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3351 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3354 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3355 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3356 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3360 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Fixed typo #16215.
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3366 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3369 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3370 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3371 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3372 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3373 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3378 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3381 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3382 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3383 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3388 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3394 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3400 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3403 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3404 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3405 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3406 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3407 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3408 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3412 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3418 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3421 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3425 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3428 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3429 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3430 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3434 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3437 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3441 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3447 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3450 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3454 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3457 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3461 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3467 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3470 postinst, postrm, etc.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3474 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3480 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3483 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3484 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3485 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3486 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3487 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3491 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3494 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3495 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3499 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3502 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3506 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3509 installing package files into.
3510 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3515 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3519 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3523 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3529 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3532 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3536 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3539 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3540 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3541 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3542 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3546 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3548 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3549 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3550 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3551 multiple binary packages.
3552 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3553 should rebuild them with this version.
3554 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3558 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3561 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3565 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3568 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3572 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3575 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3576 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3577 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3578 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3579 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3580 debian/README.debian.
3581 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3582 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3583 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3584 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3585 in a few situations.)
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3589 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3595 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3601 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3604 * Fixed several man pages.
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3608 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3611 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3612 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3616 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3619 is ready for general use.
3620 * Added man pages for all commands.
3621 * Multiple binary package support.
3622 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3623 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3624 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3626 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3627 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3628 auto-installed as parameters.
3629 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3631 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3634 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3635 the package build directory it is to act on.
3636 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3637 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3638 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3642 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3644 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3645 ready to replace debstd.
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400