1 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
8 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
10 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
15 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
18 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
19 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
24 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
30 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
33 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
37 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
40 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
41 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
46 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
49 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
53 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
59 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
62 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
63 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
67 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
73 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Removing perl warning message.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
79 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
82 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
83 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
84 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
85 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
86 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
87 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
88 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
89 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
93 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
99 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
106 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
109 debconf-mergetemplate.
110 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
111 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
115 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
118 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
119 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
120 dh_install, which ...
121 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
122 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
123 mess, as it uses debian/install.
124 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
125 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
126 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
127 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
128 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
129 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
130 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
131 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
132 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
133 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
134 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
136 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
137 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
138 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
139 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
140 course there's -X ..)
141 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
142 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
143 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
145 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
146 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
147 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
148 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
149 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
154 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
160 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Typo, Closes: #139176
163 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
167 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
173 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
179 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
185 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
191 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
194 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
195 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
196 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
197 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
199 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
200 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
204 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
206 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
210 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Typo, Closes: #132454
213 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
217 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
220 upset. Closes: #131322
222 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
224 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
227 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
228 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
229 line, as well as in debian/rules.
230 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
231 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
232 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
233 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
234 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
235 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
236 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
237 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
238 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
239 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
240 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
241 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
243 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
247 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
250 - Better indenting of generated code.
251 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
255 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
259 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
260 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
261 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
262 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
263 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
264 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
265 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
269 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
272 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
276 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
279 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
280 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
281 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
282 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
283 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
284 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
285 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
286 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
287 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
288 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
289 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
290 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
291 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
292 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
293 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
298 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
304 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
307 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
308 * fixed dh_testdir man page
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
312 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Typo, Closes: #122679
315 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
316 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
320 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
326 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
329 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
330 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
331 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
332 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
333 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
338 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
340 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
344 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
347 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
351 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
354 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
359 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Typo, Closes: #114135
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
365 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
368 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
372 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
378 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
382 Also some indentation fixes.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
386 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
389 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
390 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
391 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
392 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
393 Closes: #106514, #85520
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
397 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Typo, Closes: #104405
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
403 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
409 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
411 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
415 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
421 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
427 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
430 change it in debhelper v4..
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
434 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
440 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
443 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
447 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
450 is not essential. Closes: #100430
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
454 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
460 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
463 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
464 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
465 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
466 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
467 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
468 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
469 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
470 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
471 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
472 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
473 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
474 prefixed with ".debhelper")
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
478 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
481 look just like shared libs, but are not.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
485 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
492 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
495 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
496 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
497 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
498 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
499 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
500 program those options go to. So, for example,
501 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
502 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
503 something complex. Closes: #89311
504 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
508 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
511 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
512 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
513 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
517 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
520 through loop. Closes: #98598
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
524 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Missing semi-colon.
527 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
528 this (dh_* should be called, really).
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
532 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
535 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
536 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
537 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
541 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
544 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
545 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
549 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
552 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
556 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
559 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
560 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
564 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
567 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
568 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
569 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
573 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
575 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
576 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
577 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
578 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
582 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
585 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
589 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
595 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Typo, Closes: #92407
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
601 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
607 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
613 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
616 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
620 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
623 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
624 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
625 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
626 followed. Closes: #85483
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
630 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
632 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
633 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
634 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
638 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
641 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
642 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
643 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
644 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
645 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
646 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
647 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
648 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
649 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
650 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
651 Closes: #88464, #77743
652 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
653 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
654 us to deal with that gracefully.
655 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
657 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
658 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
659 a while, Closes: #51225
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
663 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
669 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
672 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
676 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
680 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
685 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
688 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
689 don't make packlist files.
690 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
691 debhelper coding standards.
692 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
693 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
697 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
700 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
704 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
707 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
708 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
709 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
710 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
711 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
712 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
713 but is mildly deprecated.
714 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
715 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
716 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
717 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
718 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
719 switching to statoverrides..
720 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
721 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
722 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
723 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
724 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
725 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
727 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
728 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
729 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
730 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
731 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
732 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
733 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
734 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
735 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
737 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
738 variable names, pod man pages).
739 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
740 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
741 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
742 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
743 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
744 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
745 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
749 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
755 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
762 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
765 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
769 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
771 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
772 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
773 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
777 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
779 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
780 they were previously ignored.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
784 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
786 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
787 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
791 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
793 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
794 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
795 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
799 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
801 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
805 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
807 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
808 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
812 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
814 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
815 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
816 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
817 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
818 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
819 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
820 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
821 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
822 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
823 it is an obsolete program.
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
827 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
829 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
833 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
837 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
839 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
843 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
845 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
847 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
849 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
853 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
859 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
861 * typo: Closes, #78567
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
865 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
871 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
873 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
877 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
879 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
880 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
881 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
882 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
883 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
884 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
888 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
891 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
896 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
899 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
900 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
901 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
902 backwards-compatability.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
906 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
908 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
909 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
910 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
911 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
912 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
913 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
914 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
916 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
917 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
918 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
920 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
922 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
923 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
924 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
925 should now be raised to severity important..
926 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
927 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
931 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
934 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
939 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Typo, Closes: #77441
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
945 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Completed the fix from the last version.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
951 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
953 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
957 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
959 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
964 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
967 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
968 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
969 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
970 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
974 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
980 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
983 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
984 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
985 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
986 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
987 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
988 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
993 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
996 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1000 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1006 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1009 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1014 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1017 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1018 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1019 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1020 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1024 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1028 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1031 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1034 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1035 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1038 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1040 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1041 the TODO entry about it.
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1045 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1052 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1055 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1056 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1060 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1063 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1064 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1065 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1066 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1070 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1076 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1083 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1086 (this appears to be logal).
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1090 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1093 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1094 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1095 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1096 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1100 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1106 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1109 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1110 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1111 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1112 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1116 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1122 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1125 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1129 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1136 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1139 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1140 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1141 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1146 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1153 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1162 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1163 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1164 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1165 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1166 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1167 notice until v2 is complete.
1168 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1169 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1170 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1171 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1172 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1173 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1175 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1176 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1177 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1178 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1182 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1188 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1195 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1198 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1202 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1209 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1212 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1213 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1214 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1215 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1220 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1223 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1224 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1225 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1230 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1233 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1234 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1238 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1241 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1245 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1248 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1259 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1262 depend on the build and install targets.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1266 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1269 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1273 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1280 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1286 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1292 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1295 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1296 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1297 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1298 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1299 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1300 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1302 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1303 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1304 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1305 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1306 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1307 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1308 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1312 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1318 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1324 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1327 right place. Closes: #55065
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1331 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1338 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1341 * Copyright date updates.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1345 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1348 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1353 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1359 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1366 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1372 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1378 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1384 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1387 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1388 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1389 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1390 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1391 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1392 bits until all files have been registered.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1396 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_installmanpages:
1399 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1400 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1401 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1402 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1403 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1404 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1405 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1406 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1407 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1408 otherwise change the result at all.
1410 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1411 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1412 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1413 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1414 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1419 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1425 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1428 act on files that don't exist.
1429 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1430 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1431 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1433 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1434 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1435 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1436 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1440 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1446 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1452 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1455 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1459 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1462 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1464 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1465 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1466 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1470 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1473 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1474 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1475 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1476 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1477 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1478 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1479 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1481 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1483 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1487 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1494 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1500 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1506 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1509 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1513 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1519 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1525 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1528 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1529 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1530 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1531 I made some changes, though:
1532 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1533 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1534 that is a clear violation of policy.
1535 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1536 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1537 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1538 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1539 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1540 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1541 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1542 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1543 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1545 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1549 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1555 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1558 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1562 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1565 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1566 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1571 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1577 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1584 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1587 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1588 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1589 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1590 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1591 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1592 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1593 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1597 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1603 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1607 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1608 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1612 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1618 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1621 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1625 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1628 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1629 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1633 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1635 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1640 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1644 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1648 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1651 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1652 for the dependancies to be generated.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1656 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1659 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1663 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1666 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1667 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1668 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1673 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1676 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1677 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1681 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1687 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1693 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1696 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1700 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1706 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1709 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1710 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1711 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1712 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1713 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1714 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1715 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1716 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1717 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1718 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1719 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1720 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1724 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1727 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1728 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1730 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1731 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1732 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1733 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1734 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1735 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1737 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1738 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1742 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1745 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1749 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1756 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1759 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1764 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1767 for building debhelper.
1768 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1772 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1779 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1782 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1786 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1789 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1790 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1791 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1792 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1793 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1794 it's always available.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1798 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1801 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1802 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1803 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1807 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1810 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1811 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1821 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1824 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1828 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1834 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1837 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1838 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1839 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1843 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1846 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1851 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1854 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1855 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1857 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1858 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1862 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1868 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1874 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1877 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1881 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1884 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1885 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1887 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1891 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1894 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1895 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1896 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1900 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1903 things if CDPATH is set.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1907 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1913 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1916 seems to make sense for the transition.
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1920 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1923 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1928 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1931 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1932 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1939 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1943 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1946 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1947 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1948 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1949 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1953 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1959 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1962 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1963 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1964 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1965 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1966 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1967 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1968 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1969 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1970 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1971 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1976 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1979 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1980 * README: mention doc/v2
1981 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1982 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1986 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1988 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1989 be using this script RSN.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1993 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1996 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1997 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1998 more than 1 init script.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2002 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2005 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2009 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Changed perl version detection.
2012 * Changed call to find.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2016 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2019 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2021 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2026 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Really include dh_installpam.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2032 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2035 * Wrote man page for same.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2039 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2042 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2043 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2048 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2055 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2058 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2059 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2060 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2061 x bit was being set!
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2065 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2068 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2069 well. (Closes: 38900)
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2073 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2076 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2077 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2081 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2087 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2094 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2100 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2103 help from Julian Gilbey.
2104 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2105 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2106 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2107 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2108 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2109 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2110 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2115 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2121 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2128 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2134 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2140 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2143 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2147 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2150 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2154 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2157 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2161 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2167 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2170 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2174 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2180 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2186 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2189 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2190 may be deleted. (#35845)
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2194 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Various man page enhancements.
2197 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2202 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2205 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2206 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2210 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2213 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2214 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2215 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2217 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2218 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2223 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2229 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Another very minor typo fix.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2235 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Very minor typo fix.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2241 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2244 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2245 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2249 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2255 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2258 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2259 variables properly (#34850).
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2263 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2269 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2272 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2273 (automatically generated by build process).
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2277 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2279 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2283 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2286 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2287 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2289 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2293 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2296 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2300 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * README: minor typo fix.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2306 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2309 leave it at that. :-)
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2313 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2319 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2325 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2328 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2329 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2330 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2334 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2337 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2341 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2344 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2348 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2351 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2352 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2353 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2354 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2358 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2361 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2362 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2363 Craig Small for spotting this.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2367 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2370 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2371 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2375 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2381 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2384 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2388 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2390 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2391 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2392 working on the last version of debhelper.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2396 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2399 being made. (#23255)
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2403 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2409 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2412 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2416 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2419 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2420 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2421 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2422 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2426 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2429 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2430 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2431 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2432 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2434 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2435 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2437 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2442 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2448 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2454 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2457 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2458 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2459 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2460 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2461 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2462 suidregister actually supports it.
2463 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2464 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2468 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2475 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2478 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2479 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2480 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2481 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2482 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2483 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2484 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2488 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2490 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2491 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2495 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2498 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2499 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2500 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2501 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2505 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2508 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2510 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2511 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2512 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2513 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2514 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2515 effect, either. (#30118)
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2519 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2525 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2528 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2529 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2533 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2539 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2542 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2543 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2544 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2545 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2549 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2552 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2553 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2557 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2563 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2566 packages, painlessly.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2570 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2576 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2582 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2588 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * The perl conversion is complete.
2592 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2594 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2595 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2596 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2601 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2604 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2605 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2606 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2610 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2613 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2615 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2617 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2618 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2622 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2625 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2626 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2630 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2636 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2639 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2640 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2641 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2642 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2643 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2647 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2650 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2651 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2652 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2653 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2657 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2660 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2664 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2667 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2668 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2669 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2670 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2671 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2672 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2673 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2674 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2678 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2684 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2687 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2688 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2689 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2694 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2697 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2701 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2704 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2708 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2711 sections of shared libraries.
2712 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2713 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2714 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2715 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2716 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2717 things you don't want them to.
2718 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2719 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2723 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2726 shared libraries. (#26414)
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2730 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2732 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2733 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2734 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2735 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2739 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2743 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2745 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2746 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2747 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2748 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2749 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2753 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2756 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2760 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2763 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2764 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2769 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2772 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2776 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2779 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2780 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2781 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2782 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2783 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2785 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2786 remove debian/files properly.
2787 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2788 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2789 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2790 * Removed bogus menu file.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2794 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2797 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2801 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2804 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2805 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2806 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2807 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2808 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2809 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2813 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2816 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2817 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2818 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2819 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2823 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2830 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2833 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2834 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2836 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2837 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2838 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2839 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2840 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2841 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2845 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2848 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2849 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2850 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2851 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2852 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2853 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2854 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2855 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2856 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2857 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2858 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2859 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2860 passed any switches.
2861 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2865 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2868 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2869 at all for a long while.
2870 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2871 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2872 large chunks in the process.
2873 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2874 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2875 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2880 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2883 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2885 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2890 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2893 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2894 that don't always have the same files in them.
2895 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2896 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2897 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2901 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2905 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2906 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2907 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2908 updating 27 man pages.
2909 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2910 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2911 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2912 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2913 programs act on. (#25247)
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2917 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2921 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2922 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2923 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2924 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2925 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2926 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2931 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2938 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2945 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2948 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2952 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2958 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2961 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2962 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2963 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2964 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2965 package by accident.
2966 * Is version 1.0 next?
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2970 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2973 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2974 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2978 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2981 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2982 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2983 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2984 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2985 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2987 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2992 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2995 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2996 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3000 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3003 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3007 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3010 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3011 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3016 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3022 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3025 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3026 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3031 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3037 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3040 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3041 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3042 past week. Thanks, guys!
3044 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3045 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3046 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3047 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3048 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3049 would do in the same situation.
3050 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3051 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3053 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3055 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3056 permissions changed.
3057 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3058 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3059 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3060 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3061 files are treated identically.
3062 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3063 * Minor man page fixes.
3064 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3065 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3066 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3070 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3073 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3074 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3075 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3076 use -X multiple times, too.
3077 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3078 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3082 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3085 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3086 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3090 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3093 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3097 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3100 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3101 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3102 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3103 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3104 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3105 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3106 shape if you're starting a new package.
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3110 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3113 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3117 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3120 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3121 because of missing symlinks.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3125 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3131 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3134 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3135 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3136 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3137 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3138 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3140 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3141 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3145 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3147 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3148 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3149 to be changed after the fact :-)
3150 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3154 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3157 no version string after the -V.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3161 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3163 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3164 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3169 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3172 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3176 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3179 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3180 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3181 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3182 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3183 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3184 I always welcome corrections!
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3188 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3194 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3197 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3198 * Documented this new switch.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3202 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3205 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3206 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3207 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3208 no packages use the old behavior.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3212 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3215 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3216 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3220 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3223 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3227 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3233 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3236 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3240 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3243 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3244 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3245 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3249 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3255 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3258 into the source package by accident.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3262 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3265 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3266 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3267 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3268 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3269 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3270 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3275 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3279 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3280 inspired to implement some of it.
3281 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3285 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3288 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3292 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3295 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3296 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3300 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3303 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3304 have done.) (#17598)
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3308 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3314 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3320 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3323 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3327 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3330 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3331 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3335 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3338 argument processor in perl.
3339 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3340 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3341 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3342 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3346 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3349 type directories. (#16933)
3350 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3351 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3352 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3353 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3354 are supported. (#16935)
3355 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3360 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3363 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3367 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3371 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3372 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3373 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3374 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3375 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3376 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3380 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3383 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3384 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3386 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3387 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3388 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3389 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3390 a given package, or -i or -a.
3391 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3392 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3393 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3394 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3395 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3396 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3397 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3398 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3399 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3401 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3402 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3403 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3407 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3410 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3411 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3416 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3419 does not have a section.
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3423 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3426 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3427 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3428 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3432 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Fixed typo #16215.
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3438 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3441 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3442 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3443 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3444 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3445 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3450 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3453 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3454 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3455 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3460 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3466 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3472 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3475 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3476 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3477 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3478 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3479 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3480 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3484 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3490 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3493 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3497 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3500 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3501 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3502 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3506 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3509 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3513 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3519 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3522 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3526 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3529 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3533 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3539 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3542 postinst, postrm, etc.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3546 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3552 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3555 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3556 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3557 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3558 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3559 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3563 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3566 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3567 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3571 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3574 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3578 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3581 installing package files into.
3582 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3587 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3591 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3595 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3601 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3604 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3608 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3611 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3612 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3613 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3614 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3618 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3620 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3621 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3622 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3623 multiple binary packages.
3624 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3625 should rebuild them with this version.
3626 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3630 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3633 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3637 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3640 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3644 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3647 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3648 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3649 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3650 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3651 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3652 debian/README.debian.
3653 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3654 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3655 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3656 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3657 in a few situations.)
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3661 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3667 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3673 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3676 * Fixed several man pages.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3680 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3683 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3684 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3688 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3691 is ready for general use.
3692 * Added man pages for all commands.
3693 * Multiple binary package support.
3694 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3695 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3696 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3698 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3699 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3700 auto-installed as parameters.
3701 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3703 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3706 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3707 the package build directory it is to act on.
3708 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3709 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3710 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3714 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3716 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3717 ready to replace debstd.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400