1 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
4 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
5 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
10 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
13 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
17 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
19 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
23 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
26 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
27 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
31 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
37 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Removing perl warning message.
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
43 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
46 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
47 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
48 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
49 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
50 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
51 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
52 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
53 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
57 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
63 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
70 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
73 debconf-mergetemplate.
74 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
75 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
79 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
81 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
82 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
83 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
85 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
86 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
87 mess, as it uses debian/install.
88 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
89 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
90 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
91 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
92 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
93 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
94 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
95 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
96 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
97 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
98 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
100 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
101 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
102 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
103 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
104 course there's -X ..)
105 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
106 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
107 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
109 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
110 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
111 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
112 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
113 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
118 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
124 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Typo, Closes: #139176
127 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
131 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
137 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
143 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
149 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
155 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
158 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
159 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
160 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
161 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
163 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
164 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
168 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
174 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Typo, Closes: #132454
177 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
181 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
184 upset. Closes: #131322
186 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
188 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
191 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
192 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
193 line, as well as in debian/rules.
194 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
195 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
196 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
197 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
198 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
199 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
200 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
201 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
202 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
203 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
204 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
205 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
207 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
211 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
214 - Better indenting of generated code.
215 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
219 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
223 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
224 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
225 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
226 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
227 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
228 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
229 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
233 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
236 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
240 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
243 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
244 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
245 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
246 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
247 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
248 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
249 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
250 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
251 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
252 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
253 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
254 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
255 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
256 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
257 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
262 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
268 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
271 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
272 * fixed dh_testdir man page
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
276 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Typo, Closes: #122679
279 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
280 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
284 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
290 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
293 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
294 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
295 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
296 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
297 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
302 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
304 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
308 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
311 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
315 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
318 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
323 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Typo, Closes: #114135
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
329 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
332 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
336 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
342 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
346 Also some indentation fixes.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
350 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
353 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
354 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
355 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
356 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
357 Closes: #106514, #85520
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
361 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Typo, Closes: #104405
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
367 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
373 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
375 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
379 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
385 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
391 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
394 change it in debhelper v4..
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
398 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
404 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
407 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
411 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
414 is not essential. Closes: #100430
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
418 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
420 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
424 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
427 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
428 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
429 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
430 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
431 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
432 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
433 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
434 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
435 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
436 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
437 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
438 prefixed with ".debhelper")
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
442 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
445 look just like shared libs, but are not.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
449 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
456 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
459 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
460 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
461 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
462 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
463 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
464 program those options go to. So, for example,
465 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
466 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
467 something complex. Closes: #89311
468 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
472 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
475 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
476 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
477 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
481 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
484 through loop. Closes: #98598
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
488 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Missing semi-colon.
491 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
492 this (dh_* should be called, really).
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
496 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
499 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
500 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
501 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
505 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
508 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
509 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
513 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
516 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
520 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
523 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
524 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
528 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
531 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
532 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
533 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
537 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
540 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
541 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
542 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
546 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
549 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
553 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
559 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Typo, Closes: #92407
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
565 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
571 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
577 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
580 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
584 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
587 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
588 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
589 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
590 followed. Closes: #85483
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
594 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
596 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
597 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
598 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
602 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
605 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
606 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
607 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
608 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
609 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
610 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
611 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
612 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
613 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
614 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
615 Closes: #88464, #77743
616 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
617 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
618 us to deal with that gracefully.
619 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
621 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
622 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
623 a while, Closes: #51225
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
627 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
633 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
636 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
640 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
644 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
649 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
652 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
653 don't make packlist files.
654 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
655 debhelper coding standards.
656 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
657 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
661 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
664 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
668 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
671 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
672 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
673 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
674 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
675 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
676 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
677 but is mildly deprecated.
678 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
679 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
680 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
681 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
682 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
683 switching to statoverrides..
684 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
685 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
686 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
687 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
688 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
689 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
691 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
692 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
693 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
694 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
695 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
696 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
697 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
698 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
699 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
701 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
702 variable names, pod man pages).
703 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
704 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
705 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
706 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
707 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
708 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
709 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
713 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
719 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
726 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
729 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
733 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
735 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
736 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
737 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
741 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
743 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
744 they were previously ignored.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
748 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
750 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
751 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
755 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
757 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
758 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
759 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
763 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
765 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
769 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
771 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
772 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
776 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
778 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
779 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
780 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
781 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
782 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
783 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
784 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
785 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
786 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
787 it is an obsolete program.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
791 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
793 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
797 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
801 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
803 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
807 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
809 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
811 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
813 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
817 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
823 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
825 * typo: Closes, #78567
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
829 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
835 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
841 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
843 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
844 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
845 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
846 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
847 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
848 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
852 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
855 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
860 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
863 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
864 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
865 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
866 backwards-compatability.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
870 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
872 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
873 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
874 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
875 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
876 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
877 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
878 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
880 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
881 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
882 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
884 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
886 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
887 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
888 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
889 should now be raised to severity important..
890 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
891 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
895 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
898 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
903 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Typo, Closes: #77441
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
909 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Completed the fix from the last version.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
915 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
921 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
923 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
928 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
931 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
932 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
933 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
934 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
938 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
940 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
944 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
947 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
948 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
949 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
950 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
951 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
952 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
957 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
960 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
964 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
970 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
973 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
978 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
980 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
981 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
982 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
983 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
984 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
988 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
992 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
995 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
998 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
999 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1002 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1004 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1005 the TODO entry about it.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1009 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1016 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1019 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1020 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1024 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1027 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1028 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1029 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1030 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1034 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1040 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1047 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1050 (this appears to be logal).
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1054 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1057 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1058 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1059 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1060 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1064 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1070 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1073 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1074 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1075 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1076 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1080 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1086 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1089 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1100 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1103 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1104 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1105 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1110 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1117 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1123 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1126 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1127 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1128 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1129 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1130 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1131 notice until v2 is complete.
1132 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1133 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1134 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1135 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1136 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1137 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1139 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1140 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1141 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1142 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1146 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1152 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1162 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1166 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1173 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1176 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1177 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1178 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1179 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1184 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1187 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1188 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1189 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1194 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1197 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1198 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1202 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1205 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1209 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1212 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1223 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1226 depend on the build and install targets.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1230 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1233 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1237 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1244 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1250 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1256 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1259 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1260 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1261 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1262 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1263 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1264 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1266 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1267 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1268 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1269 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1270 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1271 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1272 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1276 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1282 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1288 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1291 right place. Closes: #55065
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1295 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1302 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1305 * Copyright date updates.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1309 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1312 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1317 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1323 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1330 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1336 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1342 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1348 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1351 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1352 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1353 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1354 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1355 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1356 bits until all files have been registered.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1360 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_installmanpages:
1363 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1364 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1365 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1366 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1367 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1368 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1369 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1370 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1371 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1372 otherwise change the result at all.
1374 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1375 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1376 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1377 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1378 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1383 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1389 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1392 act on files that don't exist.
1393 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1394 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1395 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1397 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1398 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1399 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1400 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1404 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1410 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1416 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1419 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1423 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1426 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1428 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1429 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1430 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1434 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1437 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1438 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1439 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1440 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1441 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1442 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1443 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1445 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1447 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1451 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1458 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1464 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1470 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1473 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1477 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1483 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1492 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1493 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1494 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1495 I made some changes, though:
1496 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1497 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1498 that is a clear violation of policy.
1499 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1500 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1501 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1502 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1503 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1504 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1505 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1506 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1507 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1509 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1513 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1519 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1522 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1526 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1529 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1530 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1535 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1541 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1548 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1551 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1552 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1553 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1554 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1555 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1556 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1557 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1561 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1567 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1571 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1572 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1576 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1582 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1585 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1589 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1592 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1593 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1597 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1599 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1604 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1608 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1612 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1615 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1616 for the dependancies to be generated.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1620 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1623 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1627 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1630 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1631 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1632 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1637 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1640 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1641 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1645 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1651 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1657 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1660 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1664 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1670 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1673 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1674 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1675 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1676 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1677 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1678 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1679 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1680 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1681 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1682 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1683 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1684 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1688 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1691 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1692 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1694 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1695 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1696 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1697 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1698 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1699 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1701 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1702 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1706 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1709 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1713 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1720 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1723 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1728 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1731 for building debhelper.
1732 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1736 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1743 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1746 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1750 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1753 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1754 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1755 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1756 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1757 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1758 it's always available.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1762 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1765 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1766 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1767 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1771 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1774 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1775 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1779 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1785 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1788 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1792 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1798 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1801 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1802 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1803 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1807 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1810 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1818 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1819 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1821 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1822 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1826 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1832 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1838 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1841 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1845 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1848 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1849 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1851 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1855 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1858 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1859 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1860 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1864 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1867 things if CDPATH is set.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1871 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1880 seems to make sense for the transition.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1884 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1887 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1892 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1895 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1896 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1900 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1903 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1907 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1910 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1911 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1912 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1913 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1917 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1923 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1926 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1927 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1928 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1929 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1930 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1931 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1932 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1933 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1934 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1935 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1940 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1943 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1944 * README: mention doc/v2
1945 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1946 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1950 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1952 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1953 be using this script RSN.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1957 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1960 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1961 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1962 more than 1 init script.
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1966 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1969 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1973 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Changed perl version detection.
1976 * Changed call to find.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1980 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1983 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1985 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1990 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Really include dh_installpam.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1996 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1999 * Wrote man page for same.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2003 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2006 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2007 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2012 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2019 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2022 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2023 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2024 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2025 x bit was being set!
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2029 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2032 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2033 well. (Closes: 38900)
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2037 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2040 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2041 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2045 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2051 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2058 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2064 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2067 help from Julian Gilbey.
2068 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2069 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2070 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2071 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2072 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2073 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2074 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2079 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2085 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2092 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2098 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2104 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2107 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2111 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2114 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2118 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2121 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2125 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2131 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2134 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2138 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2144 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2150 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2153 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2154 may be deleted. (#35845)
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2158 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Various man page enhancements.
2161 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2166 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2169 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2170 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2174 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2177 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2178 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2179 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2181 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2182 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2187 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2193 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Another very minor typo fix.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2199 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Very minor typo fix.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2205 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2208 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2209 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2213 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2219 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2222 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2223 variables properly (#34850).
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2227 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2233 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2236 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2237 (automatically generated by build process).
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2241 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2243 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2247 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2250 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2251 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2253 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2257 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2260 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2264 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * README: minor typo fix.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2270 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2273 leave it at that. :-)
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2277 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2283 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2289 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2292 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2293 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2294 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2298 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2301 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2305 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2308 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2312 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2315 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2316 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2317 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2318 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2322 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2325 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2326 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2327 Craig Small for spotting this.
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2331 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2334 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2335 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2339 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2345 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2348 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2352 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2354 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2355 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2356 working on the last version of debhelper.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2360 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2363 being made. (#23255)
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2367 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2373 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2376 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2380 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2383 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2384 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2385 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2386 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2390 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2393 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2394 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2395 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2396 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2398 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2399 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2401 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2406 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2412 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2418 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2421 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2422 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2423 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2424 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2425 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2426 suidregister actually supports it.
2427 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2428 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2432 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2439 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2442 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2443 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2444 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2445 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2446 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2447 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2448 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2452 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2454 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2455 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2459 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2462 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2463 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2464 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2465 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2469 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2472 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2474 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2475 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2476 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2477 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2478 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2479 effect, either. (#30118)
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2483 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2489 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2492 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2493 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2497 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2503 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2506 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2507 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2508 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2509 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2513 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2516 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2517 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2521 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2527 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2530 packages, painlessly.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2534 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2540 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2546 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2552 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * The perl conversion is complete.
2556 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2558 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2559 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2560 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2565 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2568 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2569 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2570 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2574 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2577 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2579 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2581 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2582 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2586 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2589 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2590 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2594 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2600 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2603 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2604 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2605 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2606 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2607 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2611 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2614 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2615 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2616 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2617 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2621 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2624 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2628 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2631 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2632 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2633 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2634 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2635 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2636 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2637 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2638 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2642 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2648 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2651 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2652 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2653 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2658 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2661 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2665 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2668 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2672 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2675 sections of shared libraries.
2676 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2677 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2678 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2679 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2680 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2681 things you don't want them to.
2682 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2683 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2687 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2690 shared libraries. (#26414)
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2694 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2696 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2697 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2698 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2699 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2703 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2707 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2709 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2710 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2711 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2712 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2713 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2717 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2720 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2724 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2727 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2728 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2733 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2736 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2740 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2743 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2744 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2745 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2746 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2747 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2749 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2750 remove debian/files properly.
2751 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2752 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2753 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2754 * Removed bogus menu file.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2758 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2761 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2765 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2768 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2769 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2770 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2771 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2772 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2773 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2777 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2780 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2781 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2782 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2783 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2787 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2794 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2797 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2798 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2800 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2801 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2802 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2803 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2804 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2805 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2809 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2812 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2813 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2814 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2815 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2816 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2817 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2818 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2819 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2820 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2821 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2822 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2823 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2824 passed any switches.
2825 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2829 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2832 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2833 at all for a long while.
2834 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2835 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2836 large chunks in the process.
2837 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2838 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2839 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2844 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2847 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2849 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2854 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2857 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2858 that don't always have the same files in them.
2859 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2860 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2861 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2865 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2869 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2870 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2871 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2872 updating 27 man pages.
2873 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2874 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2875 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2876 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2877 programs act on. (#25247)
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2881 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2885 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2886 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2887 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2888 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2889 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2890 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2895 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2902 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2909 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2912 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2916 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2922 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2925 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2926 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2927 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2928 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2929 package by accident.
2930 * Is version 1.0 next?
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2934 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2937 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2938 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2942 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2945 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2946 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2947 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2948 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2949 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2951 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2956 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2959 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2960 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2964 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2967 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2971 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2974 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2975 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2980 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2986 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2989 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2990 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2995 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3001 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3004 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3005 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3006 past week. Thanks, guys!
3008 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3009 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3010 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3011 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3012 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3013 would do in the same situation.
3014 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3015 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3017 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3019 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3020 permissions changed.
3021 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3022 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3023 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3024 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3025 files are treated identically.
3026 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3027 * Minor man page fixes.
3028 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3029 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3030 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3034 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3037 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3038 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3039 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3040 use -X multiple times, too.
3041 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3042 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3046 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3049 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3050 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3054 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3057 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3061 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3064 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3065 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3066 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3067 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3068 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3069 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3070 shape if you're starting a new package.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3074 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3077 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3081 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3084 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3085 because of missing symlinks.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3089 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3095 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3098 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3099 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3100 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3101 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3102 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3104 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3105 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3109 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3111 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3112 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3113 to be changed after the fact :-)
3114 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3118 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3121 no version string after the -V.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3125 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3127 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3128 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3133 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3136 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3140 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3143 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3144 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3145 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3146 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3147 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3148 I always welcome corrections!
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3152 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3158 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3161 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3162 * Documented this new switch.
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3166 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3169 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3170 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3171 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3172 no packages use the old behavior.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3176 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3179 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3180 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3184 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3187 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3191 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3197 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3200 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3204 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3207 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3208 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3209 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3213 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3219 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3222 into the source package by accident.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3226 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3229 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3230 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3231 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3232 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3233 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3234 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3239 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3243 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3244 inspired to implement some of it.
3245 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3249 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3252 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3256 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3259 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3260 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3264 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3267 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3268 have done.) (#17598)
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3272 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3278 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3284 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3287 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3291 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3294 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3295 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3299 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3302 argument processor in perl.
3303 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3304 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3305 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3306 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3310 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3313 type directories. (#16933)
3314 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3315 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3316 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3317 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3318 are supported. (#16935)
3319 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3324 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3327 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3331 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3335 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3336 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3337 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3338 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3339 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3340 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3344 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3347 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3348 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3350 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3351 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3352 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3353 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3354 a given package, or -i or -a.
3355 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3356 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3357 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3358 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3359 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3360 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3361 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3362 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3363 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3365 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3366 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3367 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3371 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3374 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3375 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3380 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3383 does not have a section.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3387 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3390 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3391 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3392 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3396 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * Fixed typo #16215.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3402 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3405 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3406 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3407 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3408 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3409 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3414 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3417 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3418 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3419 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3424 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3430 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3436 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3439 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3440 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3441 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3442 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3443 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3444 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3448 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3454 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3457 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3461 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3464 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3465 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3466 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3470 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3473 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3477 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3483 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3486 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3490 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3493 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3497 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3503 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3506 postinst, postrm, etc.
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3510 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3516 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3519 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3520 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3521 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3522 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3523 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3527 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3530 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3531 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3535 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3538 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3542 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3545 installing package files into.
3546 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3551 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3555 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3559 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3565 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3568 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3572 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3575 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3576 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3577 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3578 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3582 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3584 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3585 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3586 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3587 multiple binary packages.
3588 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3589 should rebuild them with this version.
3590 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3594 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3597 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3601 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3604 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3608 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3611 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3612 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3613 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3614 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3615 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3616 debian/README.debian.
3617 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3618 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3619 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3620 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3621 in a few situations.)
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3625 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3631 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3637 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3640 * Fixed several man pages.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3644 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3647 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3648 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3652 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3655 is ready for general use.
3656 * Added man pages for all commands.
3657 * Multiple binary package support.
3658 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3659 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3660 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3662 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3663 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3664 auto-installed as parameters.
3665 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3667 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3670 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3671 the package build directory it is to act on.
3672 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3673 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3674 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3678 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3680 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3681 ready to replace debstd.
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400