1 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
4 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
5 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
10 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
16 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
19 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
23 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
26 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
27 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
32 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
35 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
39 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
45 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
47 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
48 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
49 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
53 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
59 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Removing perl warning message.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
65 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
68 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
69 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
70 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
71 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
72 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
73 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
74 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
75 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
79 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
85 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
92 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
95 debconf-mergetemplate.
96 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
97 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
101 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
104 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
105 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
106 dh_install, which ...
107 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
108 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
109 mess, as it uses debian/install.
110 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
111 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
112 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
113 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
114 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
115 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
116 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
117 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
118 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
119 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
120 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
122 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
123 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
124 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
125 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
126 course there's -X ..)
127 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
128 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
129 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
131 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
132 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
133 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
134 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
135 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
140 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
146 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Typo, Closes: #139176
149 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
153 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
159 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
165 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
171 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
177 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
180 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
181 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
182 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
183 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
185 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
186 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
190 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
196 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Typo, Closes: #132454
199 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
203 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
206 upset. Closes: #131322
208 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
210 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
213 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
214 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
215 line, as well as in debian/rules.
216 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
217 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
218 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
219 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
220 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
221 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
222 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
223 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
224 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
225 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
226 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
227 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
229 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
233 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
236 - Better indenting of generated code.
237 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
241 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
245 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
246 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
247 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
248 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
249 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
250 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
251 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
255 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
258 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
262 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
265 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
266 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
267 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
268 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
269 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
270 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
271 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
272 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
273 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
274 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
275 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
276 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
277 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
278 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
279 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
284 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
290 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
293 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
294 * fixed dh_testdir man page
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
298 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Typo, Closes: #122679
301 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
302 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
306 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
312 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
315 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
316 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
317 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
318 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
319 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
324 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
326 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
330 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
333 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
337 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
340 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
345 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Typo, Closes: #114135
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
351 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
354 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
358 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
364 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
366 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
368 Also some indentation fixes.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
372 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
375 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
376 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
377 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
378 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
379 Closes: #106514, #85520
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
383 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Typo, Closes: #104405
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
389 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
395 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
397 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
401 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
407 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
413 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
416 change it in debhelper v4..
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
420 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
426 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
429 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
433 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
436 is not essential. Closes: #100430
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
440 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
446 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
449 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
450 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
451 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
452 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
453 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
454 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
455 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
456 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
457 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
458 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
459 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
460 prefixed with ".debhelper")
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
464 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
467 look just like shared libs, but are not.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
471 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
478 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
481 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
482 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
483 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
484 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
485 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
486 program those options go to. So, for example,
487 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
488 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
489 something complex. Closes: #89311
490 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
494 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
497 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
498 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
499 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
503 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
506 through loop. Closes: #98598
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
510 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Missing semi-colon.
513 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
514 this (dh_* should be called, really).
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
518 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
521 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
522 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
523 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
527 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
530 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
531 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
535 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
538 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
542 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
545 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
546 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
550 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
553 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
554 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
555 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
559 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
562 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
563 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
564 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
568 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
571 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
575 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
581 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Typo, Closes: #92407
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
587 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
593 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
599 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
602 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
606 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
609 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
610 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
611 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
612 followed. Closes: #85483
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
616 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
618 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
619 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
620 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
624 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
627 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
628 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
629 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
630 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
631 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
632 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
633 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
634 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
635 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
636 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
637 Closes: #88464, #77743
638 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
639 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
640 us to deal with that gracefully.
641 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
643 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
644 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
645 a while, Closes: #51225
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
649 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
655 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
658 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
662 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
666 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
671 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
674 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
675 don't make packlist files.
676 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
677 debhelper coding standards.
678 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
679 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
683 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
686 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
690 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
693 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
694 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
695 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
696 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
697 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
698 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
699 but is mildly deprecated.
700 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
701 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
702 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
703 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
704 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
705 switching to statoverrides..
706 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
707 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
708 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
709 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
710 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
711 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
713 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
714 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
715 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
716 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
717 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
718 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
719 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
720 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
721 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
723 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
724 variable names, pod man pages).
725 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
726 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
727 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
728 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
729 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
730 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
731 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
735 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
741 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
748 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
751 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
755 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
757 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
758 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
759 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
763 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
765 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
766 they were previously ignored.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
770 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
772 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
773 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
777 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
779 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
780 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
781 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
785 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
787 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
791 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
793 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
794 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
798 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
800 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
801 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
802 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
803 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
804 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
805 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
806 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
807 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
808 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
809 it is an obsolete program.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
813 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
815 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
819 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
823 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
825 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
829 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
831 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
833 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
835 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
839 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
845 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
847 * typo: Closes, #78567
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
851 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
857 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
863 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
865 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
866 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
867 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
868 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
869 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
870 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
874 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
877 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
882 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
885 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
886 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
887 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
888 backwards-compatability.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
892 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
894 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
895 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
896 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
897 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
898 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
899 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
900 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
902 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
903 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
904 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
906 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
908 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
909 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
910 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
911 should now be raised to severity important..
912 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
913 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
917 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
920 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
925 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Typo, Closes: #77441
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
931 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Completed the fix from the last version.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
937 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
943 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
945 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
950 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
953 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
954 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
955 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
956 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
960 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
966 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
969 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
970 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
971 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
972 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
973 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
974 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
979 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
982 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
986 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
992 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
995 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1000 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1003 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1004 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1005 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1006 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1010 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1014 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1017 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1020 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1021 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1024 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1026 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1027 the TODO entry about it.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1031 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1038 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1041 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1042 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1046 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1049 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1050 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1051 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1052 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1056 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1062 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1069 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1072 (this appears to be logal).
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1076 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1079 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1080 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1081 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1082 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1086 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1092 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1095 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1096 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1097 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1098 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1102 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1108 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1111 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1115 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1122 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1125 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1126 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1127 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1132 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1139 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1145 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1148 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1149 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1150 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1151 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1152 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1153 notice until v2 is complete.
1154 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1155 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1156 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1157 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1158 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1159 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1161 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1162 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1163 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1164 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1168 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1174 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1181 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1184 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1188 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1195 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1198 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1199 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1200 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1201 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1206 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1209 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1210 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1211 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1219 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1220 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1224 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1227 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1231 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1234 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1238 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1245 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1248 depend on the build and install targets.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1255 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1259 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1266 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1272 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1278 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1281 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1282 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1283 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1284 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1285 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1286 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1288 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1289 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1290 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1291 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1292 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1293 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1294 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1298 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1304 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1310 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1313 right place. Closes: #55065
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1317 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1324 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1327 * Copyright date updates.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1331 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1334 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1339 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1345 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1352 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1358 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1364 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1370 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1373 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1374 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1375 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1376 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1377 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1378 bits until all files have been registered.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1382 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_installmanpages:
1385 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1386 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1387 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1388 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1389 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1390 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1391 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1392 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1393 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1394 otherwise change the result at all.
1396 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1397 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1398 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1399 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1400 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1405 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1411 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1414 act on files that don't exist.
1415 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1416 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1417 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1419 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1420 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1421 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1422 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1426 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1432 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1438 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1441 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1445 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1448 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1450 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1451 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1452 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1456 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1459 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1460 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1461 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1462 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1463 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1464 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1465 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1467 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1469 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1473 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1480 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1486 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1492 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1495 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1499 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1505 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1511 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1514 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1515 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1516 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1517 I made some changes, though:
1518 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1519 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1520 that is a clear violation of policy.
1521 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1522 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1523 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1524 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1525 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1526 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1527 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1528 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1529 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1531 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1535 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1541 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1544 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1548 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1551 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1552 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1557 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1563 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1570 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1573 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1574 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1575 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1576 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1577 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1578 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1579 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1583 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1589 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1593 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1594 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1598 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1604 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1607 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1611 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1614 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1615 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1619 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1621 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1626 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1630 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1634 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1637 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1638 for the dependancies to be generated.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1642 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1645 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1649 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1652 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1653 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1654 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1659 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1662 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1663 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1667 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1673 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1679 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1682 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1686 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1692 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1695 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1696 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1697 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1698 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1699 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1700 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1701 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1702 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1703 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1704 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1705 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1706 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1710 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1713 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1714 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1716 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1717 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1718 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1719 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1720 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1721 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1723 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1724 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1728 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1731 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1735 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1742 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1745 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1750 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1753 for building debhelper.
1754 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1758 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1765 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1768 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1772 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1775 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1776 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1777 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1778 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1779 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1780 it's always available.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1784 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1787 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1788 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1789 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1793 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1796 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1797 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1801 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1807 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1810 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1814 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1820 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1823 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1824 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1825 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1829 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1832 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1837 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1840 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1841 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1843 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1844 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1848 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1854 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1860 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1863 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1867 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1870 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1871 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1873 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1880 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1881 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1882 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1886 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1889 things if CDPATH is set.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1893 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1899 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1902 seems to make sense for the transition.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1909 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1914 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1917 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1918 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1922 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1925 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1929 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1932 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1933 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1934 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1935 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1939 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1945 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1948 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1949 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1950 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1951 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1952 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1953 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1954 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1955 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1956 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1957 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1962 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1965 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1966 * README: mention doc/v2
1967 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1968 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1972 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1974 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1975 be using this script RSN.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1979 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1982 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1983 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1984 more than 1 init script.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1988 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1991 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1995 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Changed perl version detection.
1998 * Changed call to find.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2002 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2005 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2007 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2012 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Really include dh_installpam.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2018 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2021 * Wrote man page for same.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2025 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2028 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2029 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2034 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2041 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2044 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2045 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2046 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2047 x bit was being set!
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2051 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2054 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2055 well. (Closes: 38900)
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2059 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2062 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2063 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2067 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2073 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2080 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2086 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2089 help from Julian Gilbey.
2090 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2091 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2092 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2093 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2094 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2095 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2096 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2101 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2107 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2114 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2120 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2126 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2129 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2133 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2136 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2140 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2143 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2147 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2153 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2156 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2160 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2166 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2172 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2175 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2176 may be deleted. (#35845)
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2180 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Various man page enhancements.
2183 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2188 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2191 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2192 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2196 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2199 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2200 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2201 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2203 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2204 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2209 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2215 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Another very minor typo fix.
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2221 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Very minor typo fix.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2227 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2230 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2231 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2235 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2241 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2244 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2245 variables properly (#34850).
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2249 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2255 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2258 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2259 (automatically generated by build process).
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2263 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2265 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2269 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2272 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2273 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2275 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2279 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2282 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2286 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * README: minor typo fix.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2292 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2295 leave it at that. :-)
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2299 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2305 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2311 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2314 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2315 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2316 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2320 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2323 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2327 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2330 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2334 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2337 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2338 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2339 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2340 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2344 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2347 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2348 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2349 Craig Small for spotting this.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2353 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2356 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2357 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2361 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2367 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2370 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2374 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2376 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2377 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2378 working on the last version of debhelper.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2382 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2385 being made. (#23255)
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2389 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2395 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2398 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2402 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2405 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2406 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2407 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2408 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2412 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2415 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2416 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2417 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2418 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2420 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2421 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2423 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2428 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2434 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2440 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2443 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2444 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2445 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2446 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2447 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2448 suidregister actually supports it.
2449 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2450 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2454 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2461 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2464 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2465 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2466 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2467 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2468 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2469 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2470 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2474 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2476 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2477 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2481 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2484 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2485 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2486 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2487 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2491 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2494 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2496 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2497 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2498 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2499 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2500 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2501 effect, either. (#30118)
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2505 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2511 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2514 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2515 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2519 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2525 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2528 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2529 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2530 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2531 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2535 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2538 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2539 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2543 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2549 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2552 packages, painlessly.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2556 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2562 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2568 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2574 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * The perl conversion is complete.
2578 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2580 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2581 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2582 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2587 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2590 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2591 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2592 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2596 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2599 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2601 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2603 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2604 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2608 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2611 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2612 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2616 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2622 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2625 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2626 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2627 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2628 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2629 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2633 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2636 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2637 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2638 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2639 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2643 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2646 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2650 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2653 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2654 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2655 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2656 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2657 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2658 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2659 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2660 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2664 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2670 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2673 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2674 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2675 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2680 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2683 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2687 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2690 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2694 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2697 sections of shared libraries.
2698 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2699 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2700 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2701 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2702 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2703 things you don't want them to.
2704 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2705 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2709 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2712 shared libraries. (#26414)
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2716 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2718 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2719 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2720 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2721 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2725 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2729 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2731 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2732 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2733 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2734 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2735 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2739 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2742 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2746 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2749 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2750 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2755 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2758 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2762 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2765 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2766 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2767 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2768 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2769 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2771 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2772 remove debian/files properly.
2773 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2774 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2775 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2776 * Removed bogus menu file.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2780 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2783 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2787 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2790 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2791 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2792 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2793 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2794 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2795 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2799 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2802 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2803 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2804 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2805 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2809 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2816 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2819 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2820 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2822 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2823 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2824 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2825 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2826 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2827 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2831 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2834 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2835 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2836 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2837 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2838 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2839 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2840 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2841 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2842 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2843 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2844 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2845 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2846 passed any switches.
2847 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2851 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2854 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2855 at all for a long while.
2856 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2857 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2858 large chunks in the process.
2859 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2860 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2861 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2866 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2869 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2871 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2876 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2879 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2880 that don't always have the same files in them.
2881 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2882 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2883 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2887 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2891 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2892 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2893 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2894 updating 27 man pages.
2895 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2896 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2897 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2898 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2899 programs act on. (#25247)
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2903 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2907 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2908 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2909 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2910 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2911 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2912 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2917 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2924 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2931 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2934 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2938 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2944 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2947 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2948 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2949 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2950 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2951 package by accident.
2952 * Is version 1.0 next?
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2956 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2959 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2960 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2964 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2967 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2968 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2969 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2970 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2971 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2973 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2978 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2981 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2982 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2986 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2989 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2993 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2996 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2997 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3002 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3008 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3011 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3012 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3017 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3023 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3026 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3027 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3028 past week. Thanks, guys!
3030 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3031 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3032 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3033 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3034 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3035 would do in the same situation.
3036 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3037 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3039 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3041 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3042 permissions changed.
3043 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3044 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3045 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3046 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3047 files are treated identically.
3048 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3049 * Minor man page fixes.
3050 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3051 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3052 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3056 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3059 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3060 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3061 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3062 use -X multiple times, too.
3063 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3064 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3068 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3071 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3072 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3076 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3079 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3083 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3086 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3087 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3088 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3089 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3090 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3091 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3092 shape if you're starting a new package.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3096 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3099 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3103 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3106 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3107 because of missing symlinks.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3111 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3117 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3120 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3121 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3122 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3123 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3124 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3126 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3127 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3131 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3133 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3134 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3135 to be changed after the fact :-)
3136 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3140 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3143 no version string after the -V.
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3147 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3149 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3150 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3155 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3158 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3162 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3165 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3166 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3167 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3168 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3169 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3170 I always welcome corrections!
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3174 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3180 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3183 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3184 * Documented this new switch.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3188 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3191 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3192 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3193 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3194 no packages use the old behavior.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3198 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3201 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3202 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3206 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3209 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3213 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3219 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3222 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3226 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3229 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3230 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3231 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3235 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3241 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3244 into the source package by accident.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3248 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3251 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3252 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3253 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3254 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3255 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3256 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3261 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3265 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3266 inspired to implement some of it.
3267 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3271 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3274 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3278 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3281 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3282 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3286 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3289 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3290 have done.) (#17598)
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3294 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3300 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3306 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3309 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3313 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3316 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3317 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3321 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3324 argument processor in perl.
3325 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3326 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3327 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3328 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3332 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3335 type directories. (#16933)
3336 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3337 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3338 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3339 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3340 are supported. (#16935)
3341 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3346 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3349 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3353 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3357 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3358 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3359 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3360 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3361 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3362 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3366 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3369 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3370 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3372 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3373 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3374 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3375 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3376 a given package, or -i or -a.
3377 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3378 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3379 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3380 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3381 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3382 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3383 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3384 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3385 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3387 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3388 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3389 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3393 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3396 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3397 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3402 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3405 does not have a section.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3409 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3412 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3413 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3414 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3418 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Fixed typo #16215.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3424 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3427 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3428 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3429 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3430 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3431 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3436 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3439 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3440 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3441 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3446 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3452 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3458 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3461 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3462 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3463 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3464 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3465 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3466 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3470 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3476 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3479 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3483 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3486 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3487 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3488 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3492 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3495 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3499 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3505 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3508 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3512 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3515 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3519 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3525 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3528 postinst, postrm, etc.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3532 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3538 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3541 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3542 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3543 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3544 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3545 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3549 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3552 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3553 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3557 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3560 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3564 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3567 installing package files into.
3568 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3573 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3577 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3581 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3587 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3590 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3594 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3597 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3598 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3599 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3600 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3604 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3606 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3607 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3608 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3609 multiple binary packages.
3610 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3611 should rebuild them with this version.
3612 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3616 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3619 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3623 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3626 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3630 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3633 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3634 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3635 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3636 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3637 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3638 debian/README.debian.
3639 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3640 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3641 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3642 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3643 in a few situations.)
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3647 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3653 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3659 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3662 * Fixed several man pages.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3666 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3669 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3670 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3674 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3677 is ready for general use.
3678 * Added man pages for all commands.
3679 * Multiple binary package support.
3680 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3681 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3682 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3684 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3685 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3686 auto-installed as parameters.
3687 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3689 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3692 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3693 the package build directory it is to act on.
3694 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3695 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3696 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3700 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3702 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3703 ready to replace debstd.
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400