1 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
7 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Removing perl warning message.
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
13 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
15 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
16 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
17 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
18 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
19 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
20 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
21 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
22 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
23 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
27 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
33 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
40 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
43 debconf-mergetemplate.
44 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
45 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
49 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
52 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
53 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
55 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
56 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
57 mess, as it uses debian/install.
58 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
59 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
60 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
61 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
62 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
63 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
64 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
65 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
66 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
67 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
68 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
70 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
71 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
72 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
73 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
75 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
76 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
77 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
79 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
80 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
81 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
82 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
83 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
88 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
94 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Typo, Closes: #139176
97 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
101 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
107 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
113 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
119 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
121 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
125 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
127 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
128 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
129 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
130 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
131 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
133 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
134 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
138 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
144 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Typo, Closes: #132454
147 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
151 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
154 upset. Closes: #131322
156 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
158 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
161 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
162 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
163 line, as well as in debian/rules.
164 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
165 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
166 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
167 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
168 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
169 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
170 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
171 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
172 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
173 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
174 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
175 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
177 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
181 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
184 - Better indenting of generated code.
185 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
189 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
193 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
194 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
195 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
196 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
197 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
198 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
199 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
203 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
206 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
210 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
213 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
214 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
215 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
216 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
217 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
218 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
219 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
220 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
221 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
222 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
223 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
224 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
225 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
226 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
227 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
232 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
238 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
241 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
242 * fixed dh_testdir man page
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
246 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Typo, Closes: #122679
249 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
250 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
254 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
260 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
263 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
264 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
265 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
266 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
267 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
272 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
274 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
278 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
281 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
285 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
288 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
293 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Typo, Closes: #114135
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
299 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
302 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
306 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
312 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
316 Also some indentation fixes.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
320 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
323 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
324 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
325 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
326 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
327 Closes: #106514, #85520
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
331 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Typo, Closes: #104405
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
337 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
343 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
345 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
349 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
355 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
361 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
364 change it in debhelper v4..
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
368 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
374 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
377 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
381 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
383 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
384 is not essential. Closes: #100430
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
388 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
394 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
397 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
398 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
399 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
400 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
401 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
402 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
403 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
404 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
405 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
406 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
407 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
408 prefixed with ".debhelper")
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
412 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
415 look just like shared libs, but are not.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
419 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
426 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
429 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
430 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
431 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
432 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
433 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
434 program those options go to. So, for example,
435 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
436 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
437 something complex. Closes: #89311
438 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
442 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
445 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
446 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
447 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
451 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
454 through loop. Closes: #98598
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
458 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Missing semi-colon.
461 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
462 this (dh_* should be called, really).
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
466 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
469 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
470 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
471 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
475 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
478 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
479 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
483 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
486 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
490 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
493 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
494 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
498 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
501 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
502 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
503 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
507 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
510 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
511 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
512 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
516 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
519 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
523 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
529 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Typo, Closes: #92407
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
535 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
541 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
547 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
550 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
554 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
557 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
558 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
559 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
560 followed. Closes: #85483
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
564 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
566 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
567 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
568 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
572 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
575 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
576 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
577 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
578 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
579 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
580 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
581 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
582 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
583 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
584 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
585 Closes: #88464, #77743
586 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
587 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
588 us to deal with that gracefully.
589 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
591 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
592 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
593 a while, Closes: #51225
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
597 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
603 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
606 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
610 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
614 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
619 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
622 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
623 don't make packlist files.
624 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
625 debhelper coding standards.
626 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
627 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
631 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
634 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
638 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
641 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
642 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
643 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
644 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
645 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
646 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
647 but is mildly deprecated.
648 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
649 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
650 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
651 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
652 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
653 switching to statoverrides..
654 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
655 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
656 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
657 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
658 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
659 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
661 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
662 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
663 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
664 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
665 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
666 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
667 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
668 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
669 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
671 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
672 variable names, pod man pages).
673 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
674 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
675 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
676 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
677 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
678 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
679 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
683 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
689 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
696 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
699 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
703 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
705 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
706 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
707 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
711 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
713 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
714 they were previously ignored.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
718 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
720 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
721 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
725 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
727 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
728 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
729 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
733 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
735 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
739 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
741 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
742 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
746 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
748 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
749 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
750 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
751 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
752 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
753 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
754 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
755 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
756 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
757 it is an obsolete program.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
761 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
763 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
767 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
771 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
773 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
775 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
777 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
779 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
781 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
783 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
787 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
793 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
795 * typo: Closes, #78567
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
799 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
805 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
811 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
813 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
814 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
815 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
816 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
817 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
818 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
822 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
825 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
830 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
833 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
834 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
835 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
836 backwards-compatability.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
840 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
842 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
843 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
844 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
845 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
846 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
847 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
848 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
850 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
851 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
852 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
854 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
856 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
857 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
858 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
859 should now be raised to severity important..
860 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
861 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
865 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
868 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
873 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Typo, Closes: #77441
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
879 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Completed the fix from the last version.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
885 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
891 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
893 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
898 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
901 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
902 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
903 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
904 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
908 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
914 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
917 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
918 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
919 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
920 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
921 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
922 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
927 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
930 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
934 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
940 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
943 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
948 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
951 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
952 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
953 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
954 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
958 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
962 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
965 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
968 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
969 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
972 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
974 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
975 the TODO entry about it.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
979 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
986 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
989 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
990 prevent that. Closes: #73052
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
994 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Typo, Closes: #72932
997 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
998 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
999 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1000 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1004 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1010 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1017 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1020 (this appears to be logal).
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1024 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1027 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1028 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1029 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1030 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1034 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1040 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1043 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1044 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1045 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1046 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1050 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1056 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1059 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1063 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1070 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1073 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1074 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1075 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1080 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1087 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1096 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1097 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1098 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1099 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1100 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1101 notice until v2 is complete.
1102 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1103 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1104 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1105 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1106 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1107 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1109 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1110 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1111 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1112 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1116 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1122 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1129 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1132 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1136 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1143 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1146 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1147 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1148 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1149 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1154 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1157 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1158 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1159 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1164 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1167 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1168 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1172 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1175 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1179 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1182 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1186 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1193 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1196 depend on the build and install targets.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1200 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1203 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1207 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1214 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1220 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1226 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1229 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1230 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1231 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1232 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1233 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1234 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1236 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1237 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1238 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1239 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1240 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1241 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1242 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1246 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1252 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1258 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1261 right place. Closes: #55065
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1265 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1272 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1275 * Copyright date updates.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1279 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1282 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1287 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1293 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1300 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1306 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1312 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1318 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1321 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1322 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1323 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1324 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1325 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1326 bits until all files have been registered.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1330 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_installmanpages:
1333 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1334 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1335 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1336 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1337 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1338 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1339 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1340 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1341 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1342 otherwise change the result at all.
1344 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1345 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1346 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1347 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1348 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1353 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1359 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1362 act on files that don't exist.
1363 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1364 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1365 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1367 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1368 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1369 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1370 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1374 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1380 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1386 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1389 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1393 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1396 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1398 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1399 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1400 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1404 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1407 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1408 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1409 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1410 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1411 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1412 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1413 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1415 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1417 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1421 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1428 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1434 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1440 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1443 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1447 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1453 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1459 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1462 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1463 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1464 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1465 I made some changes, though:
1466 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1467 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1468 that is a clear violation of policy.
1469 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1470 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1471 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1472 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1473 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1474 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1475 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1476 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1477 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1479 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1483 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1492 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1496 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1499 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1500 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1505 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1511 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1518 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1521 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1522 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1523 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1524 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1525 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1526 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1527 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1531 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1537 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1541 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1542 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1546 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1552 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1555 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1559 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1562 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1563 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1567 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1569 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1574 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1578 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1582 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1585 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1586 for the dependancies to be generated.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1590 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1593 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1597 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1600 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1601 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1602 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1607 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1610 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1611 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1615 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1621 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1627 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1630 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1634 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1640 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1643 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1644 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1645 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1646 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1647 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1648 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1649 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1650 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1651 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1652 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1653 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1654 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1658 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1661 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1662 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1664 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1665 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1666 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1667 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1668 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1669 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1671 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1672 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1676 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1679 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1683 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1690 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1693 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1698 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1701 for building debhelper.
1702 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1706 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1713 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1716 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1720 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1723 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1724 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1725 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1726 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1727 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1728 it's always available.
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1732 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1735 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1736 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1737 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1741 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1744 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1745 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1749 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1755 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1758 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1762 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1768 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1771 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1772 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1773 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1777 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1780 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1785 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1788 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1789 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1791 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1792 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1796 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1802 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1808 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1811 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1818 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1819 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1821 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1825 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1828 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1829 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1830 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1834 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1837 things if CDPATH is set.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1841 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1847 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1850 seems to make sense for the transition.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1854 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1857 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1862 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1865 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1866 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1870 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1873 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1880 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1881 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1882 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1883 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1887 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1893 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1896 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1897 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1898 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1899 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1900 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1901 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1902 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1903 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1904 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1905 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1910 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1913 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1914 * README: mention doc/v2
1915 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1916 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1920 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1922 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1923 be using this script RSN.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1927 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1930 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1931 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1932 more than 1 init script.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1936 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1939 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1943 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Changed perl version detection.
1946 * Changed call to find.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1950 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1953 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1955 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1960 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * Really include dh_installpam.
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1966 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1969 * Wrote man page for same.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1973 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1976 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1977 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1982 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1989 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1992 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1993 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1994 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1995 x bit was being set!
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1999 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2002 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2003 well. (Closes: 38900)
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2007 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2010 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2011 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2015 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2021 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2028 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2034 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2037 help from Julian Gilbey.
2038 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2039 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2040 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2041 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2042 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2043 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2044 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2049 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2055 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2062 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2068 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2074 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2077 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2081 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2084 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2088 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2091 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2095 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2101 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2104 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2108 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2114 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2120 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2123 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2124 may be deleted. (#35845)
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2128 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * Various man page enhancements.
2131 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2136 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2139 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2140 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2144 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2147 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2148 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2149 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2151 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2152 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2157 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2163 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Another very minor typo fix.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2169 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Very minor typo fix.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2175 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2178 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2179 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2183 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2189 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2192 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2193 variables properly (#34850).
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2197 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2203 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2206 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2207 (automatically generated by build process).
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2211 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2213 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2217 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2220 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2221 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2223 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2227 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2230 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2234 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * README: minor typo fix.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2240 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2243 leave it at that. :-)
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2247 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2253 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2259 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2262 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2263 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2264 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2268 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2271 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2275 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2278 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2282 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2285 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2286 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2287 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2288 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2292 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2295 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2296 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2297 Craig Small for spotting this.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2301 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2304 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2305 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2309 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2315 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2318 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2322 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2324 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2325 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2326 working on the last version of debhelper.
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2330 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2333 being made. (#23255)
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2337 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2343 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2346 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2350 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2353 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2354 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2355 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2356 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2360 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2363 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2364 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2365 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2366 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2368 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2369 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2371 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2376 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2382 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2388 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2391 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2392 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2393 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2394 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2395 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2396 suidregister actually supports it.
2397 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2398 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2402 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2409 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2412 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2413 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2414 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2415 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2416 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2417 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2418 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2422 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2424 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2425 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2429 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2432 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2433 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2434 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2435 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2439 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2442 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2444 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2445 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2446 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2447 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2448 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2449 effect, either. (#30118)
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2453 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2459 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2462 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2463 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2467 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2473 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2476 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2477 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2478 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2479 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2483 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2486 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2487 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2491 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2497 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2500 packages, painlessly.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2504 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2510 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2516 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2522 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * The perl conversion is complete.
2526 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2528 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2529 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2530 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2535 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2538 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2539 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2540 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2544 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2547 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2549 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2551 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2552 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2556 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2559 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2560 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2564 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2570 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2573 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2574 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2575 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2576 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2577 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2581 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2584 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2585 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2586 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2587 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2591 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2594 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2598 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2601 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2602 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2603 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2604 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2605 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2606 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2607 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2608 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2612 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2618 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2621 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2622 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2623 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2628 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2631 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2635 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2638 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2642 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2645 sections of shared libraries.
2646 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2647 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2648 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2649 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2650 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2651 things you don't want them to.
2652 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2653 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2657 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2660 shared libraries. (#26414)
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2664 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2666 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2667 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2668 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2669 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2673 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2677 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2679 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2680 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2681 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2682 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2683 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2687 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2690 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2694 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2697 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2698 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2703 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2706 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2710 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2713 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2714 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2715 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2716 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2717 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2719 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2720 remove debian/files properly.
2721 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2722 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2723 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2724 * Removed bogus menu file.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2728 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2731 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2735 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2738 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2739 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2740 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2741 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2742 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2743 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2747 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2750 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2751 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2752 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2753 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2757 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2764 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2767 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2768 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2770 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2771 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2772 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2773 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2774 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2775 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2779 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2782 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2783 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2784 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2785 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2786 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2787 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2788 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2789 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2790 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2791 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2792 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2793 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2794 passed any switches.
2795 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2799 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2802 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2803 at all for a long while.
2804 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2805 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2806 large chunks in the process.
2807 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2808 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2809 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2814 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2817 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2819 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2824 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2827 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2828 that don't always have the same files in them.
2829 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2830 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2831 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2835 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2839 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2840 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2841 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2842 updating 27 man pages.
2843 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2844 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2845 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2846 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2847 programs act on. (#25247)
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2851 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2855 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2856 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2857 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2858 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2859 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2860 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2865 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2872 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2879 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2882 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2886 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2892 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2895 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2896 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2897 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2898 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2899 package by accident.
2900 * Is version 1.0 next?
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2904 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2907 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2908 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2912 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2915 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2916 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2917 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2918 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2919 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2921 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2926 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2929 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2930 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2934 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2937 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2941 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2944 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2945 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2950 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2956 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2959 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2960 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2965 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2971 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2974 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2975 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2976 past week. Thanks, guys!
2978 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2979 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2980 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2981 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2982 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2983 would do in the same situation.
2984 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2985 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2987 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2989 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2990 permissions changed.
2991 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2992 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2993 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2994 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2995 files are treated identically.
2996 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2997 * Minor man page fixes.
2998 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2999 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3000 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3004 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3007 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3008 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3009 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3010 use -X multiple times, too.
3011 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3012 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3016 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3019 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3020 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3024 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3027 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3031 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3034 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3035 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3036 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3037 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3038 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3039 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3040 shape if you're starting a new package.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3044 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3047 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3051 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3054 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3055 because of missing symlinks.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3059 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3065 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3068 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3069 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3070 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3071 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3072 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3074 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3075 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3079 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3081 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3082 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3083 to be changed after the fact :-)
3084 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3088 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3091 no version string after the -V.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3095 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3097 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3098 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3103 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3106 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3110 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3113 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3114 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3115 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3116 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3117 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3118 I always welcome corrections!
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3122 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3128 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3131 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3132 * Documented this new switch.
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3136 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3139 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3140 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3141 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3142 no packages use the old behavior.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3146 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3149 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3150 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3154 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3157 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3161 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3167 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3170 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3174 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3177 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3178 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3179 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3183 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3189 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3192 into the source package by accident.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3196 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3199 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3200 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3201 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3202 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3203 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3204 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3209 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3213 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3214 inspired to implement some of it.
3215 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3219 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3222 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3226 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3229 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3230 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3234 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3237 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3238 have done.) (#17598)
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3242 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3248 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3254 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3257 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3261 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3264 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3265 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3269 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3272 argument processor in perl.
3273 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3274 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3275 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3276 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3280 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3283 type directories. (#16933)
3284 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3285 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3286 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3287 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3288 are supported. (#16935)
3289 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3294 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3297 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3301 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3305 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3306 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3307 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3308 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3309 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3310 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3314 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3317 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3318 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3320 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3321 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3322 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3323 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3324 a given package, or -i or -a.
3325 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3326 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3327 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3328 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3329 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3330 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3331 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3332 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3333 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3335 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3336 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3337 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3341 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3344 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3345 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3350 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3353 does not have a section.
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3357 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3360 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3361 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3362 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3366 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * Fixed typo #16215.
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3372 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3375 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3376 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3377 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3378 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3379 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3384 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3387 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3388 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3389 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3394 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3400 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3406 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3409 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3410 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3411 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3412 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3413 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3414 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3418 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3424 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3427 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3431 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3434 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3435 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3436 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3440 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3443 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3447 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3453 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3456 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3460 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3463 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3467 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3473 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3476 postinst, postrm, etc.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3480 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3486 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3489 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3490 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3491 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3492 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3493 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3497 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3500 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3501 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3505 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3508 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3512 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3515 installing package files into.
3516 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3521 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3525 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3529 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3535 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3538 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3542 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3545 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3546 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3547 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3548 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3552 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3554 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3555 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3556 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3557 multiple binary packages.
3558 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3559 should rebuild them with this version.
3560 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3564 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3567 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3571 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3574 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3578 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3581 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3582 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3583 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3584 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3585 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3586 debian/README.debian.
3587 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3588 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3589 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3590 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3591 in a few situations.)
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3595 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3601 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3607 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3610 * Fixed several man pages.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3614 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3617 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3618 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3622 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3625 is ready for general use.
3626 * Added man pages for all commands.
3627 * Multiple binary package support.
3628 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3629 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3630 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3632 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3633 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3634 auto-installed as parameters.
3635 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3637 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3640 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3641 the package build directory it is to act on.
3642 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3643 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3644 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3648 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3650 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3651 ready to replace debstd.
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400