1 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
4 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
5 * Removed dh_installxaw.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
9 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
12 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
13 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
14 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
15 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
16 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
20 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
23 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
25 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
30 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
32 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
33 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
37 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
40 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
41 right thing. Closes: #150644
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
45 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
52 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
54 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
59 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
62 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
63 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
68 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
74 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
77 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
81 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
84 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
85 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
90 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
93 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
97 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
103 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
106 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
107 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
111 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
117 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Removing perl warning message.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
123 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
126 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
127 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
128 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
129 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
130 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
131 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
132 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
133 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
137 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
143 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
150 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
153 debconf-mergetemplate.
154 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
155 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
159 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
162 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
163 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
164 dh_install, which ...
165 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
166 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
167 mess, as it uses debian/install.
168 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
169 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
170 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
171 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
172 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
173 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
174 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
175 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
176 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
177 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
178 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
180 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
181 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
182 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
183 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
184 course there's -X ..)
185 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
186 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
187 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
189 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
190 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
191 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
192 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
193 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
198 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
200 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
204 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Typo, Closes: #139176
207 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
211 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
217 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
223 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
229 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
235 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
238 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
239 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
240 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
241 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
243 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
244 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
248 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
254 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Typo, Closes: #132454
257 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
261 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
264 upset. Closes: #131322
266 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
268 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
271 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
272 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
273 line, as well as in debian/rules.
274 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
275 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
276 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
277 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
278 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
279 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
280 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
281 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
282 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
283 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
284 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
285 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
287 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
291 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
294 - Better indenting of generated code.
295 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
299 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
303 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
304 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
305 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
306 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
307 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
308 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
309 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
313 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
316 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
320 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
323 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
324 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
325 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
326 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
327 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
328 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
329 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
330 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
331 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
332 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
333 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
334 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
335 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
336 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
337 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
342 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
348 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
351 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
352 * fixed dh_testdir man page
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
356 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Typo, Closes: #122679
359 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
360 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
364 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
370 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
373 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
374 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
375 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
376 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
377 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
382 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
384 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
388 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
391 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
395 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
398 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
403 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Typo, Closes: #114135
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
409 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
412 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
416 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
422 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
426 Also some indentation fixes.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
430 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
433 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
434 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
435 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
436 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
437 Closes: #106514, #85520
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
441 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Typo, Closes: #104405
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
447 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
453 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
455 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
459 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
465 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
471 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
474 change it in debhelper v4..
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
478 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
484 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
487 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
491 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
494 is not essential. Closes: #100430
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
498 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
504 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
507 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
508 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
509 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
510 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
511 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
512 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
513 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
514 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
515 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
516 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
517 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
518 prefixed with ".debhelper")
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
522 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
525 look just like shared libs, but are not.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
529 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
536 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
539 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
540 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
541 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
542 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
543 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
544 program those options go to. So, for example,
545 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
546 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
547 something complex. Closes: #89311
548 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
552 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
555 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
556 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
557 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
561 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
564 through loop. Closes: #98598
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
568 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Missing semi-colon.
571 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
572 this (dh_* should be called, really).
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
576 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
579 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
580 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
581 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
585 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
588 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
589 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
593 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
596 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
600 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
602 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
603 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
604 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
608 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
611 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
612 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
613 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
617 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
620 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
621 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
622 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
626 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
629 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
633 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
639 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Typo, Closes: #92407
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
645 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
651 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
657 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
660 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
664 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
667 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
668 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
669 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
670 followed. Closes: #85483
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
674 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
676 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
677 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
678 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
682 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
685 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
686 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
687 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
688 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
689 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
690 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
691 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
692 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
693 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
694 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
695 Closes: #88464, #77743
696 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
697 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
698 us to deal with that gracefully.
699 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
701 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
702 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
703 a while, Closes: #51225
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
707 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
713 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
716 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
720 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
724 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
729 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
732 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
733 don't make packlist files.
734 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
735 debhelper coding standards.
736 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
737 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
741 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
744 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
748 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
751 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
752 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
753 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
754 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
755 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
756 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
757 but is mildly deprecated.
758 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
759 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
760 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
761 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
762 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
763 switching to statoverrides..
764 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
765 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
766 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
767 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
768 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
769 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
771 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
772 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
773 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
774 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
775 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
776 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
777 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
778 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
779 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
781 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
782 variable names, pod man pages).
783 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
784 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
785 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
786 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
787 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
788 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
789 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
793 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
799 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
806 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
809 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
813 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
815 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
816 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
817 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
821 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
823 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
824 they were previously ignored.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
828 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
830 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
831 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
835 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
837 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
838 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
839 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
843 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
845 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
849 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
851 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
852 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
856 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
858 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
859 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
860 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
861 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
862 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
863 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
864 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
865 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
866 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
867 it is an obsolete program.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
871 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
873 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
877 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
881 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
883 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
887 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
889 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
891 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
893 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
897 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
903 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
905 * typo: Closes, #78567
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
909 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
915 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
921 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
923 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
924 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
925 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
926 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
927 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
928 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
932 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
935 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
940 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
943 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
944 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
945 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
946 backwards-compatability.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
950 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
952 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
953 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
954 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
955 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
956 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
957 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
958 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
960 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
961 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
962 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
964 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
966 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
967 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
968 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
969 should now be raised to severity important..
970 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
971 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
975 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
978 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
983 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Typo, Closes: #77441
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
989 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Completed the fix from the last version.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
995 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1001 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1008 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1011 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1012 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1013 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1014 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1018 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1024 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1027 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1028 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1029 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1030 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1031 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1032 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1037 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1040 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1044 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1050 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1053 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1058 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1061 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1062 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1063 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1064 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1068 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1072 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1075 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1078 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1079 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1082 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1084 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1085 the TODO entry about it.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1089 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1096 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1099 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1100 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1104 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1107 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1108 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1109 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1110 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1114 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1120 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1127 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1130 (this appears to be logal).
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1134 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1137 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1138 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1139 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1140 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1144 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1150 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1153 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1154 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1155 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1156 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1160 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1166 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1169 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1173 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1180 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1183 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1184 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1185 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1190 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1197 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1203 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1206 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1207 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1208 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1209 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1210 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1211 notice until v2 is complete.
1212 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1213 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1214 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1215 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1216 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1217 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1219 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1220 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1221 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1222 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1226 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1232 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1239 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1242 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1246 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1253 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1256 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1257 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1258 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1259 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1264 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1267 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1268 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1269 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1274 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1277 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1278 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1282 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1285 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1289 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1292 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1296 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1303 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1306 depend on the build and install targets.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1310 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1313 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1317 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1324 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1330 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1336 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1339 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1340 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1341 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1342 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1343 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1344 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1346 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1347 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1348 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1349 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1350 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1351 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1352 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1356 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1362 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1368 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1371 right place. Closes: #55065
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1375 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1382 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1385 * Copyright date updates.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1389 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1392 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1397 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1403 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1410 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1416 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1422 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1428 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1431 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1432 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1433 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1434 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1435 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1436 bits until all files have been registered.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1440 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_installmanpages:
1443 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1444 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1445 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1446 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1447 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1448 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1449 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1450 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1451 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1452 otherwise change the result at all.
1454 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1455 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1456 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1457 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1458 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1463 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1469 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1472 act on files that don't exist.
1473 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1474 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1475 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1477 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1478 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1479 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1480 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1484 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1490 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1496 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1499 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1503 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1506 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1508 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1509 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1510 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1514 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1517 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1518 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1519 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1520 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1521 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1522 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1523 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1525 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1527 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1531 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1538 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1544 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1550 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1553 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1557 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1563 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1569 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1572 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1573 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1574 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1575 I made some changes, though:
1576 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1577 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1578 that is a clear violation of policy.
1579 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1580 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1581 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1582 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1583 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1584 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1585 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1586 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1587 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1589 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1593 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1599 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1602 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1606 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1609 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1610 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1615 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1621 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1628 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1631 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1632 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1633 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1634 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1635 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1636 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1637 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1641 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1647 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1651 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1652 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1656 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1662 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1665 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1669 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1672 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1673 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1677 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1679 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1684 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1688 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1692 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1695 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1696 for the dependancies to be generated.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1700 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1703 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1707 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1710 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1711 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1712 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1717 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1720 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1721 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1725 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1731 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1737 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1740 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1744 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1750 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1753 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1754 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1755 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1756 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1757 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1758 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1759 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1760 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1761 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1762 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1763 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1764 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1768 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1771 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1772 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1774 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1775 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1776 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1777 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1778 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1779 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1781 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1782 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1786 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1789 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1793 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1800 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1803 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1808 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1811 for building debhelper.
1812 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1816 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1823 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1826 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1830 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1833 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1834 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1835 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1836 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1837 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1838 it's always available.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1842 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1845 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1846 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1847 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1851 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1854 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1855 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1859 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1865 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1868 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1872 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1878 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1881 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1882 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1883 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1887 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1890 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1895 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1898 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1899 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1901 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1902 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1912 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1918 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1921 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1925 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1928 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1929 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1931 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1935 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1938 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1939 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1940 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1944 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1947 things if CDPATH is set.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1951 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1957 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1960 seems to make sense for the transition.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1964 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1967 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1972 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1975 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1976 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1980 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1983 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1987 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1990 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1991 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1992 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1993 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1997 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2003 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2006 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2007 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2008 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2009 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2010 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2011 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2012 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2013 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2014 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2015 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2020 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2023 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2024 * README: mention doc/v2
2025 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2026 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2030 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2032 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2033 be using this script RSN.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2037 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2040 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2041 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2042 more than 1 init script.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2046 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2049 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2053 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Changed perl version detection.
2056 * Changed call to find.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2060 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2063 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2065 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2070 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Really include dh_installpam.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2076 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2079 * Wrote man page for same.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2083 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2086 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2087 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2092 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2099 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2102 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2103 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2104 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2105 x bit was being set!
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2109 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2112 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2113 well. (Closes: 38900)
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2117 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2120 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2121 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2125 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2131 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2138 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2144 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2147 help from Julian Gilbey.
2148 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2149 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2150 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2151 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2152 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2153 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2154 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2159 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2165 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2172 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2178 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2184 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2187 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2191 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2194 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2198 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2201 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2205 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2211 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2214 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2218 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2224 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2230 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2233 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2234 may be deleted. (#35845)
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2238 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Various man page enhancements.
2241 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2246 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2249 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2250 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2254 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2257 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2258 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2259 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2261 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2262 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2267 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2273 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Another very minor typo fix.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2279 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Very minor typo fix.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2285 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2288 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2289 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2293 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2299 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2302 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2303 variables properly (#34850).
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2307 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2313 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2316 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2317 (automatically generated by build process).
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2321 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2323 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2327 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2330 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2331 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2333 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2337 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2340 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2344 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * README: minor typo fix.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2350 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2353 leave it at that. :-)
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2357 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2363 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2369 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2372 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2373 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2374 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2378 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2381 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2385 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2388 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2392 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2395 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2396 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2397 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2398 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2402 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2405 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2406 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2407 Craig Small for spotting this.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2411 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2414 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2415 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2419 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2425 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2428 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2432 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2434 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2435 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2436 working on the last version of debhelper.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2440 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2443 being made. (#23255)
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2447 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2453 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2456 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2460 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2463 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2464 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2465 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2466 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2470 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2473 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2474 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2475 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2476 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2478 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2479 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2481 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2486 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2492 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2498 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2501 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2502 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2503 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2504 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2505 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2506 suidregister actually supports it.
2507 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2508 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2512 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2519 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2522 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2523 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2524 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2525 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2526 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2527 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2528 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2532 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2534 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2535 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2539 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2542 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2543 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2544 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2545 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2549 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2552 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2554 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2555 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2556 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2557 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2558 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2559 effect, either. (#30118)
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2563 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2569 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2572 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2573 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2577 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2583 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2586 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2587 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2588 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2589 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2593 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2596 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2597 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2601 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2607 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2610 packages, painlessly.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2614 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2620 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2626 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2632 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * The perl conversion is complete.
2636 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2638 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2639 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2640 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2645 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2648 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2649 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2650 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2654 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2657 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2659 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2661 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2662 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2666 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2669 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2670 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2674 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2680 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2683 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2684 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2685 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2686 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2687 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2691 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2694 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2695 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2696 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2697 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2701 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2704 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2708 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2711 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2712 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2713 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2714 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2715 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2716 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2717 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2718 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2722 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2728 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2731 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2732 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2733 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2738 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2741 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2745 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2748 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2752 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2755 sections of shared libraries.
2756 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2757 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2758 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2759 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2760 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2761 things you don't want them to.
2762 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2763 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2767 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2770 shared libraries. (#26414)
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2774 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2776 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2777 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2778 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2779 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2783 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2787 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2789 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2790 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2791 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2792 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2793 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2797 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2800 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2804 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2807 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2808 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2813 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2816 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2820 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2823 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2824 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2825 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2826 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2827 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2829 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2830 remove debian/files properly.
2831 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2832 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2833 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2834 * Removed bogus menu file.
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2838 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2841 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2845 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2848 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2849 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2850 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2851 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2852 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2853 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2857 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2860 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2861 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2862 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2863 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2867 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2874 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2877 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2878 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2880 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2881 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2882 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2883 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2884 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2885 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2889 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2892 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2893 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2894 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2895 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2896 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2897 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2898 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2899 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2900 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2901 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2902 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2903 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2904 passed any switches.
2905 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2909 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2912 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2913 at all for a long while.
2914 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2915 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2916 large chunks in the process.
2917 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2918 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2919 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2924 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2927 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2929 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2934 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2937 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2938 that don't always have the same files in them.
2939 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2940 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2941 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2945 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2949 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2950 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2951 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2952 updating 27 man pages.
2953 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2954 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2955 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2956 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2957 programs act on. (#25247)
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2961 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2965 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2966 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2967 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2968 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2969 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2970 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2975 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2982 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2989 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2992 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2996 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3002 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3005 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3006 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3007 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3008 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3009 package by accident.
3010 * Is version 1.0 next?
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3014 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3017 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3018 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3022 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3025 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3026 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3027 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3028 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3029 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3031 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3036 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3039 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3040 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3044 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3047 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3051 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3054 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3055 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3060 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3066 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3069 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3070 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3075 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3081 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3084 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3085 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3086 past week. Thanks, guys!
3088 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3089 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3090 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3091 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3092 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3093 would do in the same situation.
3094 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3095 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3097 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3099 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3100 permissions changed.
3101 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3102 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3103 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3104 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3105 files are treated identically.
3106 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3107 * Minor man page fixes.
3108 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3109 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3110 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3114 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3117 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3118 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3119 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3120 use -X multiple times, too.
3121 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3122 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3126 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3129 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3130 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3134 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3137 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3141 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3144 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3145 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3146 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3147 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3148 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3149 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3150 shape if you're starting a new package.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3154 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3157 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3161 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3164 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3165 because of missing symlinks.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3169 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3175 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3178 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3179 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3180 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3181 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3182 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3184 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3185 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3189 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3191 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3192 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3193 to be changed after the fact :-)
3194 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3198 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3201 no version string after the -V.
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3205 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3207 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3208 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3213 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3216 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3220 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3223 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3224 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3225 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3226 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3227 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3228 I always welcome corrections!
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3232 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3238 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3241 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3242 * Documented this new switch.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3246 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3249 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3250 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3251 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3252 no packages use the old behavior.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3256 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3259 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3260 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3264 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3267 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3271 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3277 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3280 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3284 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3287 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3288 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3289 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3293 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3299 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3302 into the source package by accident.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3306 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3309 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3310 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3311 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3312 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3313 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3314 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3319 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3323 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3324 inspired to implement some of it.
3325 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3329 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3332 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3336 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3339 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3340 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3344 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3347 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3348 have done.) (#17598)
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3352 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3358 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3364 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3367 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3371 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3374 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3375 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3379 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3382 argument processor in perl.
3383 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3384 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3385 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3386 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3390 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3393 type directories. (#16933)
3394 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3395 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3396 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3397 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3398 are supported. (#16935)
3399 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3404 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3407 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3411 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3415 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3416 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3417 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3418 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3419 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3420 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3424 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3427 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3428 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3430 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3431 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3432 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3433 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3434 a given package, or -i or -a.
3435 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3436 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3437 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3438 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3439 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3440 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3441 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3442 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3443 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3445 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3446 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3447 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3451 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3454 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3455 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3460 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3463 does not have a section.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3467 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3470 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3471 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3472 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3476 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * Fixed typo #16215.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3482 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3485 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3486 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3487 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3488 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3489 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3494 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3497 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3498 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3499 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3504 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3510 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3516 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3519 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3520 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3521 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3522 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3523 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3524 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3528 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3534 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3537 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3541 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3544 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3545 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3546 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3550 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3553 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3557 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3563 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3566 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3570 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3573 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3577 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3583 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3586 postinst, postrm, etc.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3590 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3596 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3599 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3600 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3601 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3602 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3603 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3607 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3610 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3611 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3615 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3618 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3622 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3625 installing package files into.
3626 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3631 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3635 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3639 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3645 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3648 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3652 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3655 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3656 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3657 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3658 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3662 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3664 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3665 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3666 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3667 multiple binary packages.
3668 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3669 should rebuild them with this version.
3670 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3674 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3677 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3681 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3684 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3688 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3691 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3692 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3693 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3694 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3695 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3696 debian/README.debian.
3697 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3698 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3699 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3700 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3701 in a few situations.)
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3705 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3711 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3717 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3720 * Fixed several man pages.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3724 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3727 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3728 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3732 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3735 is ready for general use.
3736 * Added man pages for all commands.
3737 * Multiple binary package support.
3738 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3739 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3740 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3742 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3743 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3744 auto-installed as parameters.
3745 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3747 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3750 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3751 the package build directory it is to act on.
3752 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3753 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3754 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3758 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3760 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3761 ready to replace debstd.
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400