1 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3 * The "reverse hangover" release.
4 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
6 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
7 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
8 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
9 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
10 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
14 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
17 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
22 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
28 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
35 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
38 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
43 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
49 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
55 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
61 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
68 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
71 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
72 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
73 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
74 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
79 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Typo, Closes: #155323
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
85 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
92 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
95 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
96 * Removed dh_installxaw.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
100 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
103 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
104 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
105 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
106 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
107 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
111 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
114 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
116 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
121 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
123 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
124 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
128 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
131 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
132 right thing. Closes: #150644
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
136 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
143 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
145 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
150 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
153 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
154 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
159 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
165 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
168 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
172 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
175 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
176 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
181 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
184 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
188 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
194 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
197 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
198 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
202 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
208 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Removing perl warning message.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
214 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
216 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
217 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
218 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
219 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
220 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
221 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
222 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
223 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
224 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
228 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
234 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
236 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
241 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
244 debconf-mergetemplate.
245 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
246 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
250 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
253 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
254 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
255 dh_install, which ...
256 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
257 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
258 mess, as it uses debian/install.
259 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
260 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
261 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
262 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
263 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
264 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
265 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
266 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
267 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
268 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
269 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
271 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
272 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
273 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
274 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
275 course there's -X ..)
276 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
277 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
278 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
280 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
281 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
282 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
283 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
284 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
289 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
295 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Typo, Closes: #139176
298 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
302 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
308 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
314 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
320 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
322 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
326 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
329 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
330 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
331 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
332 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
334 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
335 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
339 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
345 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Typo, Closes: #132454
348 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
352 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
355 upset. Closes: #131322
357 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
359 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
362 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
363 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
364 line, as well as in debian/rules.
365 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
366 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
367 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
368 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
369 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
370 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
371 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
372 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
373 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
374 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
375 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
376 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
378 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
382 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
385 - Better indenting of generated code.
386 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
390 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
394 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
395 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
396 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
397 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
398 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
399 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
400 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
404 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
407 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
411 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
414 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
415 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
416 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
417 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
418 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
419 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
420 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
421 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
422 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
423 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
424 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
425 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
426 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
427 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
428 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
433 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
439 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
441 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
442 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
443 * fixed dh_testdir man page
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
447 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Typo, Closes: #122679
450 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
451 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
455 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
461 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
464 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
465 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
466 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
467 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
468 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
473 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
475 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
479 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
482 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
486 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
489 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
494 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Typo, Closes: #114135
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
500 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
503 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
507 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
513 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
517 Also some indentation fixes.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
521 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
524 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
525 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
526 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
527 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
528 Closes: #106514, #85520
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
532 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Typo, Closes: #104405
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
538 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
544 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
546 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
550 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
556 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
562 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
565 change it in debhelper v4..
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
569 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
575 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
578 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
582 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
585 is not essential. Closes: #100430
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
589 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
595 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
598 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
599 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
600 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
601 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
602 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
603 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
604 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
605 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
606 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
607 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
608 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
609 prefixed with ".debhelper")
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
613 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
616 look just like shared libs, but are not.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
620 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
627 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
630 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
631 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
632 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
633 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
634 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
635 program those options go to. So, for example,
636 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
637 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
638 something complex. Closes: #89311
639 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
643 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
646 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
647 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
648 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
652 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
655 through loop. Closes: #98598
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
659 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Missing semi-colon.
662 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
663 this (dh_* should be called, really).
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
667 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
670 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
671 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
672 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
676 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
679 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
680 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
684 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
687 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
691 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
694 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
695 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
699 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
702 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
703 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
704 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
708 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
711 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
712 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
713 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
717 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
720 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
724 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
730 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Typo, Closes: #92407
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
736 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
742 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
748 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
751 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
755 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
758 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
759 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
760 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
761 followed. Closes: #85483
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
765 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
767 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
768 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
769 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
773 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
775 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
776 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
777 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
778 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
779 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
780 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
781 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
782 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
783 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
784 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
785 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
786 Closes: #88464, #77743
787 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
788 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
789 us to deal with that gracefully.
790 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
792 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
793 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
794 a while, Closes: #51225
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
798 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
804 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
807 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
811 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
815 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
820 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
823 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
824 don't make packlist files.
825 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
826 debhelper coding standards.
827 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
828 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
832 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
835 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
839 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
842 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
843 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
844 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
845 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
846 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
847 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
848 but is mildly deprecated.
849 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
850 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
851 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
852 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
853 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
854 switching to statoverrides..
855 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
856 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
857 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
858 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
859 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
860 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
862 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
863 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
864 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
865 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
866 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
867 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
868 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
869 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
870 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
872 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
873 variable names, pod man pages).
874 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
875 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
876 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
877 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
878 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
879 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
880 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
884 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
890 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
897 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
900 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
904 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
906 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
907 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
908 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
912 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
914 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
915 they were previously ignored.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
919 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
921 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
922 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
926 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
928 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
929 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
930 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
934 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
936 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
940 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
942 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
943 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
947 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
949 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
950 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
951 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
952 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
953 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
954 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
955 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
956 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
957 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
958 it is an obsolete program.
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
962 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
964 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
968 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
972 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
974 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
978 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
980 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
982 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
984 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
988 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
994 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
996 * typo: Closes, #78567
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1000 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1006 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1012 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1015 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1016 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1017 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1018 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1019 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1023 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1026 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1031 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1034 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1035 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1036 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1037 backwards-compatability.
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1041 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1044 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1045 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1046 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1047 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1048 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1049 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1051 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1052 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1053 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1055 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1057 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1058 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1059 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1060 should now be raised to severity important..
1061 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1062 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1066 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1069 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1074 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1080 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1086 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1092 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1099 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1102 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1103 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1104 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1105 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1109 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1115 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1118 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1119 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1120 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1121 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1122 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1123 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1128 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1131 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1135 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1141 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1144 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1149 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1152 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1153 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1154 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1155 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1163 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1166 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1169 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1170 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1173 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1175 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1176 the TODO entry about it.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1180 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1187 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1190 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1191 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1195 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1198 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1199 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1200 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1201 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1205 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1211 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1218 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1221 (this appears to be logal).
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1225 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1228 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1229 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1230 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1231 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1235 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1241 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1244 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1245 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1246 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1247 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1251 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1257 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1260 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1264 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1271 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1274 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1275 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1276 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1281 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1294 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1297 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1298 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1299 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1300 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1301 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1302 notice until v2 is complete.
1303 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1304 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1305 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1306 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1307 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1308 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1310 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1311 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1312 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1313 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1317 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1323 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1330 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1333 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1337 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1344 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1347 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1348 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1349 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1350 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1355 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1358 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1359 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1360 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1365 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1368 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1369 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1373 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1376 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1380 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1383 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1387 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1394 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1397 depend on the build and install targets.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1401 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1404 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1408 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1415 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1421 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1427 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1430 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1431 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1432 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1433 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1434 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1435 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1437 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1438 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1439 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1440 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1441 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1442 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1443 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1447 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1453 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1459 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1462 right place. Closes: #55065
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1466 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1473 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1476 * Copyright date updates.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1480 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1483 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1488 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1494 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1501 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1507 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1513 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1519 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1522 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1523 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1524 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1525 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1526 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1527 bits until all files have been registered.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1531 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_installmanpages:
1534 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1535 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1536 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1537 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1538 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1539 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1540 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1541 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1542 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1543 otherwise change the result at all.
1545 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1546 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1547 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1548 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1549 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1554 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1560 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1563 act on files that don't exist.
1564 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1565 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1566 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1568 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1569 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1570 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1571 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1575 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1581 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1587 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1590 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1594 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1597 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1599 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1600 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1601 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1605 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1608 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1609 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1610 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1611 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1612 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1613 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1614 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1616 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1618 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1622 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1629 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1635 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1641 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1644 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1648 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1654 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1660 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1663 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1664 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1665 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1666 I made some changes, though:
1667 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1668 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1669 that is a clear violation of policy.
1670 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1671 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1672 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1673 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1674 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1675 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1676 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1677 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1678 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1680 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1684 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1690 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1693 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1697 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1700 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1701 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1706 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1712 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1719 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1722 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1723 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1724 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1725 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1726 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1727 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1728 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1732 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1738 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1742 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1743 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1747 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1753 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1756 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1760 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1763 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1764 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1768 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1770 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1775 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1779 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1783 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1786 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1787 for the dependancies to be generated.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1791 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1794 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1798 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1801 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1802 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1803 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1808 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1811 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1812 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1816 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1822 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1828 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1831 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1835 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1841 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1844 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1845 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1846 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1847 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1848 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1849 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1850 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1851 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1852 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1853 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1854 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1855 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1859 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1862 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1863 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1865 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1866 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1867 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1868 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1869 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1870 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1872 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1873 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1880 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1884 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1891 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1894 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1899 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1902 for building debhelper.
1903 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1907 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1914 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1917 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1921 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1924 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1925 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1926 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1927 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1928 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1929 it's always available.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1933 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1936 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1937 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1938 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1942 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1945 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1946 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1950 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1956 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1959 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1963 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1969 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1972 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1973 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1974 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1978 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1981 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1986 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1989 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1990 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1992 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1993 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1997 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2003 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2009 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2012 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2019 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2020 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2022 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2026 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2029 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2030 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2031 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2035 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2038 things if CDPATH is set.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2042 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2048 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2051 seems to make sense for the transition.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2055 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2058 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2063 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2066 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2067 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2071 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2074 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2078 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2081 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2082 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2083 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2084 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2088 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2094 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2097 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2098 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2099 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2100 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2101 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2102 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2103 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2104 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2105 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2106 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2111 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2114 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2115 * README: mention doc/v2
2116 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2117 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2121 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2123 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2124 be using this script RSN.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2128 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2131 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2132 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2133 more than 1 init script.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2137 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2140 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2144 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Changed perl version detection.
2147 * Changed call to find.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2151 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2154 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2156 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2161 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Really include dh_installpam.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2167 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2170 * Wrote man page for same.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2174 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2177 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2178 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2183 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2190 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2193 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2194 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2195 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2196 x bit was being set!
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2200 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2203 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2204 well. (Closes: 38900)
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2208 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2211 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2212 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2216 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2222 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2229 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2235 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2238 help from Julian Gilbey.
2239 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2240 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2241 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2242 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2243 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2244 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2245 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2250 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2256 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2263 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2269 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2275 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2278 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2282 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2285 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2289 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2292 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2296 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2302 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2305 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2309 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2315 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2321 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2324 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2325 may be deleted. (#35845)
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2329 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Various man page enhancements.
2332 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2337 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2340 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2341 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2345 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2348 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2349 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2350 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2352 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2353 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2358 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2364 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * Another very minor typo fix.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2370 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Very minor typo fix.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2376 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2379 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2380 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2384 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2390 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2393 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2394 variables properly (#34850).
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2398 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2404 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2407 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2408 (automatically generated by build process).
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2412 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2414 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2418 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2421 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2422 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2424 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2428 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2431 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2435 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * README: minor typo fix.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2441 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2444 leave it at that. :-)
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2448 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2454 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2460 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2463 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2464 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2465 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2469 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2472 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2476 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2479 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2483 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2486 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2487 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2488 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2489 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2493 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2496 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2497 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2498 Craig Small for spotting this.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2502 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2505 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2506 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2510 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2516 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2519 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2523 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2525 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2526 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2527 working on the last version of debhelper.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2531 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2534 being made. (#23255)
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2538 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2544 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2547 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2551 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2554 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2555 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2556 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2557 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2561 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2564 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2565 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2566 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2567 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2569 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2570 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2572 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2577 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2583 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2589 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2592 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2593 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2594 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2595 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2596 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2597 suidregister actually supports it.
2598 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2599 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2603 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2610 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2613 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2614 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2615 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2616 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2617 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2618 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2619 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2623 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2625 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2626 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2630 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2633 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2634 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2635 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2636 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2640 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2643 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2645 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2646 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2647 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2648 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2649 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2650 effect, either. (#30118)
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2654 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2660 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2663 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2664 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2668 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2674 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2677 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2678 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2679 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2680 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2684 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2687 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2688 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2692 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2698 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2701 packages, painlessly.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2705 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2711 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2717 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2723 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * The perl conversion is complete.
2727 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2729 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2730 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2731 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2736 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2739 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2740 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2741 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2745 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2748 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2750 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2752 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2753 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2757 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2760 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2761 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2765 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2771 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2774 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2775 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2776 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2777 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2778 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2782 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2785 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2786 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2787 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2788 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2792 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2795 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2799 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2802 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2803 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2804 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2805 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2806 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2807 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2808 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2809 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2813 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2819 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2822 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2823 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2824 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2829 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2832 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2836 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2839 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2843 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2846 sections of shared libraries.
2847 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2848 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2849 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2850 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2851 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2852 things you don't want them to.
2853 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2854 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2858 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2861 shared libraries. (#26414)
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2865 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2867 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2868 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2869 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2870 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2874 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2878 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2880 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2881 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2882 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2883 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2884 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2888 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2891 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2895 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2898 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2899 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2904 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2907 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2911 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2914 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2915 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2916 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2917 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2918 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2920 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2921 remove debian/files properly.
2922 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2923 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2924 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2925 * Removed bogus menu file.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2929 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2932 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2936 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2939 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2940 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2941 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2942 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2943 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2944 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2948 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2951 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2952 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2953 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2954 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2958 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2965 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2968 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2969 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2971 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2972 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2973 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2974 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2975 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2976 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2980 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2983 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2984 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2985 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2986 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2987 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2988 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2989 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2990 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2991 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2992 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2993 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2994 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2995 passed any switches.
2996 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3000 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3003 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3004 at all for a long while.
3005 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3006 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3007 large chunks in the process.
3008 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3009 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3010 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3015 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3018 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3020 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3025 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3028 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3029 that don't always have the same files in them.
3030 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3031 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3032 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3036 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3040 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3041 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3042 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3043 updating 27 man pages.
3044 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3045 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3046 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3047 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3048 programs act on. (#25247)
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3052 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3056 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3057 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3058 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3059 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3060 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3061 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3066 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3073 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3080 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3083 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3087 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3093 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3096 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3097 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3098 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3099 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3100 package by accident.
3101 * Is version 1.0 next?
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3105 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3108 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3109 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3113 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3116 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3117 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3118 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3119 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3120 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3122 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3127 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3130 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3131 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3135 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3138 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3142 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3145 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3146 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3151 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3157 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3160 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3161 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3166 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3172 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3175 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3176 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3177 past week. Thanks, guys!
3179 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3180 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3181 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3182 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3183 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3184 would do in the same situation.
3185 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3186 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3188 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3190 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3191 permissions changed.
3192 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3193 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3194 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3195 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3196 files are treated identically.
3197 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3198 * Minor man page fixes.
3199 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3200 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3201 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3205 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3208 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3209 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3210 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3211 use -X multiple times, too.
3212 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3213 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3217 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3220 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3221 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3225 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3228 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3232 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3235 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3236 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3237 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3238 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3239 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3240 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3241 shape if you're starting a new package.
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3245 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3248 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3252 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3255 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3256 because of missing symlinks.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3260 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3266 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3269 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3270 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3271 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3272 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3273 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3275 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3276 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3280 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3282 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3283 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3284 to be changed after the fact :-)
3285 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3289 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3291 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3292 no version string after the -V.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3296 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3298 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3299 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3304 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3307 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3311 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3314 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3315 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3316 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3317 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3318 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3319 I always welcome corrections!
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3323 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3329 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3332 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3333 * Documented this new switch.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3337 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3340 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3341 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3342 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3343 no packages use the old behavior.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3347 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3350 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3351 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3355 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3358 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3362 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3368 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3371 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3375 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3378 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3379 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3380 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3384 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3390 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3393 into the source package by accident.
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3397 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3400 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3401 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3402 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3403 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3404 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3405 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3410 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3414 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3415 inspired to implement some of it.
3416 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3420 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3423 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3427 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3430 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3431 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3435 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3438 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3439 have done.) (#17598)
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3443 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3449 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3455 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3458 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3462 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3465 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3466 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3470 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3473 argument processor in perl.
3474 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3475 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3476 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3477 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3481 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3484 type directories. (#16933)
3485 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3486 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3487 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3488 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3489 are supported. (#16935)
3490 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3495 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3498 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3502 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3506 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3507 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3508 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3509 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3510 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3511 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3515 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3518 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3519 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3521 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3522 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3523 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3524 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3525 a given package, or -i or -a.
3526 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3527 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3528 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3529 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3530 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3531 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3532 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3533 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3534 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3536 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3537 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3538 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3542 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3545 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3546 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3551 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3554 does not have a section.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3558 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3561 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3562 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3563 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3567 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Fixed typo #16215.
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3573 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3576 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3577 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3578 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3579 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3580 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3585 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3588 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3589 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3590 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3595 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3601 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3607 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3610 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3611 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3612 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3613 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3614 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3615 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3619 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3625 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3628 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3632 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3635 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3636 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3637 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3641 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3644 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3648 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3654 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3657 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3661 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3664 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3668 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3674 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3677 postinst, postrm, etc.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3681 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3687 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3690 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3691 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3692 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3693 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3694 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3698 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3701 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3702 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3706 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3709 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3713 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3716 installing package files into.
3717 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3722 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3726 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3730 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3736 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3739 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3743 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3746 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3747 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3748 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3749 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3753 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3755 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3756 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3757 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3758 multiple binary packages.
3759 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3760 should rebuild them with this version.
3761 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3765 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3768 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3772 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3775 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3779 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3782 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3783 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3784 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3785 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3786 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3787 debian/README.debian.
3788 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3789 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3790 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3791 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3792 in a few situations.)
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3796 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3802 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3808 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3811 * Fixed several man pages.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3815 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3818 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3819 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3823 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3826 is ready for general use.
3827 * Added man pages for all commands.
3828 * Multiple binary package support.
3829 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3830 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3831 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3833 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3834 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3835 auto-installed as parameters.
3836 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3838 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3841 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3842 the package build directory it is to act on.
3843 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3844 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3845 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3849 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3851 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3852 ready to replace debstd.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400