1 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
8 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
11 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
16 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
19 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
23 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
26 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
28 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
29 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
33 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
36 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
41 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
44 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
48 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
54 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
56 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
60 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
63 it break hard links (see #188663).
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
67 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
70 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
74 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
80 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
84 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
85 debconf-mergetemplates
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
89 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
92 pod2man. Closes: #184013
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
96 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
99 * Typo, Closes: #183267
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
103 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
106 * Update debhelper(1).
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
110 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
112 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
113 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
114 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
115 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
116 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
117 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
121 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
124 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
125 the shell. Closes: #178524
126 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
130 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
133 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
137 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
140 undocumented.7 links anymore.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
144 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
146 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
147 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
148 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
149 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
150 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
155 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
158 files from installation.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
162 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
165 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
166 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
170 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
173 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
177 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
180 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
184 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
190 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
196 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
200 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
201 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
203 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
207 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
210 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
211 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
212 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
213 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
217 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
219 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
220 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
224 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
227 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
228 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
232 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
236 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
241 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
247 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
251 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
252 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
253 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
258 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
261 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
262 practice. Closes: #163303
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
266 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
272 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
279 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
281 * The "reverse hangover" release.
282 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
284 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
285 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
286 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
287 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
288 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
292 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
295 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
300 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
306 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
313 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
316 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
321 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
327 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
333 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
339 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
346 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
349 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
350 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
351 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
352 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
357 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Typo, Closes: #155323
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
363 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
370 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
373 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
374 * Removed dh_installxaw.
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
378 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
381 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
382 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
383 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
384 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
385 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
389 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
392 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
394 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
399 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
401 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
402 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
406 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
409 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
410 right thing. Closes: #150644
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
414 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
421 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
423 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
428 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
431 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
432 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
437 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
443 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
446 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
450 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
453 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
454 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
459 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
462 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
466 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
472 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
475 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
476 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
480 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
486 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Removing perl warning message.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
492 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
495 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
496 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
497 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
498 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
499 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
500 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
501 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
502 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
506 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
512 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
514 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
519 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
522 debconf-mergetemplate.
523 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
524 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
528 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
531 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
532 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
533 dh_install, which ...
534 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
535 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
536 mess, as it uses debian/install.
537 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
538 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
539 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
540 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
541 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
542 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
543 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
544 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
545 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
546 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
547 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
549 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
550 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
551 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
552 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
553 course there's -X ..)
554 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
555 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
556 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
558 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
559 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
560 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
561 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
562 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
567 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
569 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
573 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Typo, Closes: #139176
576 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
580 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
586 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
592 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
598 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
604 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
607 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
608 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
609 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
610 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
612 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
613 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
617 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
623 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Typo, Closes: #132454
626 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
630 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
633 upset. Closes: #131322
635 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
637 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
640 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
641 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
642 line, as well as in debian/rules.
643 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
644 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
645 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
646 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
647 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
648 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
649 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
650 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
651 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
652 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
653 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
654 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
656 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
660 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
663 - Better indenting of generated code.
664 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
668 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
672 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
673 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
674 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
675 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
676 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
677 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
678 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
682 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
685 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
689 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
692 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
693 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
694 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
695 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
696 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
697 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
698 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
699 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
700 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
701 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
702 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
703 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
704 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
705 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
706 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
711 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
717 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
720 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
721 * fixed dh_testdir man page
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
725 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Typo, Closes: #122679
728 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
729 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
733 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
739 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
742 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
743 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
744 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
745 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
746 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
751 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
753 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
757 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
760 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
764 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
767 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
772 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Typo, Closes: #114135
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
778 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
781 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
785 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
791 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
795 Also some indentation fixes.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
799 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
802 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
803 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
804 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
805 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
806 Closes: #106514, #85520
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
810 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Typo, Closes: #104405
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
816 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
822 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
824 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
828 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
834 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
840 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
843 change it in debhelper v4..
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
847 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
853 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
856 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
860 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
863 is not essential. Closes: #100430
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
867 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
873 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
875 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
876 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
877 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
878 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
879 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
880 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
881 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
882 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
883 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
884 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
885 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
886 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
887 prefixed with ".debhelper")
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
891 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
894 look just like shared libs, but are not.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
898 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
905 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
908 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
909 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
910 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
911 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
912 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
913 program those options go to. So, for example,
914 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
915 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
916 something complex. Closes: #89311
917 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
921 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
924 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
925 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
926 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
930 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
933 through loop. Closes: #98598
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
937 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Missing semi-colon.
940 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
941 this (dh_* should be called, really).
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
945 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
948 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
949 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
950 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
954 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
957 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
958 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
962 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
965 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
969 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
972 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
973 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
977 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
980 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
981 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
982 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
986 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
989 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
990 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
991 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
995 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
998 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1002 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1008 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1014 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1020 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1026 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1029 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1033 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1036 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1037 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1038 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1039 followed. Closes: #85483
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1043 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1045 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1046 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1047 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1051 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1054 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1055 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1056 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1057 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1058 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1059 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1060 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1061 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1062 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1063 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1064 Closes: #88464, #77743
1065 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1066 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1067 us to deal with that gracefully.
1068 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1070 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1071 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1072 a while, Closes: #51225
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1076 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1082 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1085 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1089 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1093 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1098 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1101 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1102 don't make packlist files.
1103 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1104 debhelper coding standards.
1105 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1106 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1110 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1113 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1117 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1120 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1121 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1122 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1123 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1124 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1125 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1126 but is mildly deprecated.
1127 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1128 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1129 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1130 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1131 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1132 switching to statoverrides..
1133 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1134 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1135 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1136 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1137 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1138 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1140 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1141 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1142 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1143 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1144 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1145 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1146 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1147 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1148 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1150 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1151 variable names, pod man pages).
1152 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1153 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1154 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1155 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1156 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1157 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1158 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1162 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1168 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1175 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1178 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1182 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1184 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1185 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1186 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1190 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1192 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1193 they were previously ignored.
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1197 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1199 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1200 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1204 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1206 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1207 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1208 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1212 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1214 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1218 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1220 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1221 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1225 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1227 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1228 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1229 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1230 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1231 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1232 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1233 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1234 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1235 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1236 it is an obsolete program.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1240 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1242 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1246 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1250 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1252 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1256 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1258 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1260 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1262 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1266 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1272 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * typo: Closes, #78567
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1278 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1284 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1290 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1293 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1294 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1295 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1296 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1297 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1301 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1304 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1309 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1312 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1313 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1314 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1315 backwards-compatability.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1319 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1322 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1323 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1324 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1325 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1326 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1327 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1329 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1330 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1331 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1333 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1335 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1336 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1337 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1338 should now be raised to severity important..
1339 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1340 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1344 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1347 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1352 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1358 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1364 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1370 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1377 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1380 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1381 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1382 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1383 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1387 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1393 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1396 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1397 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1398 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1399 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1400 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1401 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1406 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1409 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1413 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1419 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1422 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1427 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1430 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1431 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1432 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1433 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1437 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1441 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1444 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1447 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1448 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1451 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1453 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1454 the TODO entry about it.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1458 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1465 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1468 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1469 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1473 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1476 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1477 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1478 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1479 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1483 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1496 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1499 (this appears to be logal).
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1503 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1506 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1507 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1508 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1509 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1513 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1519 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1522 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1523 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1524 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1525 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1529 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1535 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1538 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1542 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1549 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1552 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1553 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1554 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1559 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1566 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1572 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1575 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1576 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1577 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1578 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1579 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1580 notice until v2 is complete.
1581 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1582 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1583 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1584 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1585 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1586 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1588 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1589 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1590 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1591 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1595 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1601 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1608 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1611 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1615 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1622 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1625 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1626 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1627 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1628 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1633 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1636 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1637 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1638 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1643 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1646 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1647 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1651 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1654 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1658 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1661 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1665 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1672 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1675 depend on the build and install targets.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1679 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1682 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1686 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1693 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1699 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1705 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1708 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1709 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1710 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1711 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1712 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1713 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1715 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1716 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1717 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1718 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1719 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1720 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1721 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1725 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1731 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1737 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1740 right place. Closes: #55065
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1744 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1751 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1754 * Copyright date updates.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1758 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1761 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1766 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1772 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1779 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1785 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1791 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1797 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1800 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1801 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1802 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1803 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1804 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1805 bits until all files have been registered.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1809 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_installmanpages:
1812 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1813 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1814 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1815 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1816 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1817 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1818 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1819 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1820 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1821 otherwise change the result at all.
1823 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1824 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1825 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1826 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1827 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1832 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1838 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1841 act on files that don't exist.
1842 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1843 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1844 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1846 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1847 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1848 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1849 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1853 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1859 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1865 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1868 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1872 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1875 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1877 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1878 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1879 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1883 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1886 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1887 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1888 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1889 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1890 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1891 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1892 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1894 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1896 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1900 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1907 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1913 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1919 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1922 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1926 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1932 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1938 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1941 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1942 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1943 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1944 I made some changes, though:
1945 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1946 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1947 that is a clear violation of policy.
1948 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1949 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1950 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1951 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1952 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1953 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1954 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1955 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1956 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1958 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1962 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1968 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1971 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1975 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1978 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1979 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1984 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1990 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1997 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2000 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2001 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2002 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2003 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2004 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2005 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2006 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2010 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2020 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2021 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2025 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2031 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2034 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2038 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2041 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2042 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2046 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2048 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2053 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2057 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2061 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2064 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2065 for the dependancies to be generated.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2069 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2072 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2076 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2079 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2080 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2081 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2086 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2089 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2090 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2094 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2100 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2106 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2109 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2113 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2119 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2122 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2123 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2124 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2125 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2126 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2127 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2128 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2129 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2130 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2131 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2132 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2133 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2137 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2140 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2141 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2143 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2144 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2145 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2146 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2147 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2148 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2150 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2151 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2155 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2158 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2162 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2169 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2172 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2177 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2180 for building debhelper.
2181 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2185 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2192 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2195 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2199 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2202 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2203 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2204 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2205 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2206 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2207 it's always available.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2211 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2214 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2215 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2216 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2220 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2223 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2224 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2228 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2234 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2237 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2241 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2247 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2250 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2251 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2252 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2256 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2259 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2264 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2267 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2268 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2270 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2271 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2275 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2281 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2287 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2290 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2294 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2297 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2298 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2300 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2304 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2307 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2308 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2309 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2313 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2316 things if CDPATH is set.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2320 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2326 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2329 seems to make sense for the transition.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2333 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2336 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2341 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2344 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2345 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2349 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2352 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2356 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2359 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2360 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2361 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2362 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2366 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2372 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2375 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2376 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2377 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2378 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2379 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2380 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2381 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2382 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2383 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2384 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2389 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2392 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2393 * README: mention doc/v2
2394 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2395 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2399 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2401 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2402 be using this script RSN.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2406 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2409 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2410 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2411 more than 1 init script.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2415 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2418 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2422 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Changed perl version detection.
2425 * Changed call to find.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2429 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2432 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2434 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2439 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Really include dh_installpam.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2445 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2448 * Wrote man page for same.
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2452 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2455 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2456 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2461 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2468 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2471 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2472 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2473 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2474 x bit was being set!
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2478 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2481 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2482 well. (Closes: 38900)
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2486 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2489 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2490 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2494 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2500 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2507 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2513 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2516 help from Julian Gilbey.
2517 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2518 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2519 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2520 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2521 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2522 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2523 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2528 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2534 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2541 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2547 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2553 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2556 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2560 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2563 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2567 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2570 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2574 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2580 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2583 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2587 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2593 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2599 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2602 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2603 may be deleted. (#35845)
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2607 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Various man page enhancements.
2610 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2615 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2618 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2619 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2623 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2626 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2627 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2628 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2630 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2631 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2636 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2642 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Another very minor typo fix.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2648 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Very minor typo fix.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2654 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2657 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2658 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2662 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2668 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2671 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2672 variables properly (#34850).
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2676 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2682 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2685 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2686 (automatically generated by build process).
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2690 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2692 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2696 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2699 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2700 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2702 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2706 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2709 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2713 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * README: minor typo fix.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2719 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2722 leave it at that. :-)
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2726 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2732 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2738 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2741 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2742 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2743 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2747 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2750 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2754 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2757 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2761 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2764 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2765 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2766 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2767 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2771 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2774 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2775 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2776 Craig Small for spotting this.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2780 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2783 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2784 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2788 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2794 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2797 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2801 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2803 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2804 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2805 working on the last version of debhelper.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2809 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2812 being made. (#23255)
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2816 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2822 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2825 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2829 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2832 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2833 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2834 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2835 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2839 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2842 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2843 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2844 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2845 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2847 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2848 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2850 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2855 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2861 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2867 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2870 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2871 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2872 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2873 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2874 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2875 suidregister actually supports it.
2876 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2877 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2881 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2888 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2891 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2892 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2893 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2894 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2895 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2896 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2897 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2901 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2903 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2904 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2908 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2911 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2912 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2913 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2914 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2918 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2921 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2923 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2924 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2925 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2926 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2927 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2928 effect, either. (#30118)
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2932 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2938 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2941 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2942 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2946 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2952 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2955 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2956 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2957 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2958 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2962 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2965 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2966 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2970 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2976 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2979 packages, painlessly.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2983 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2989 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2995 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3001 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * The perl conversion is complete.
3005 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3007 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3008 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3009 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3014 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3017 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3018 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3019 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3023 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3026 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3028 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3030 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3031 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3035 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3038 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3039 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3043 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3049 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3052 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3053 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3054 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3055 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3056 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3060 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3063 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3064 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3065 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3066 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3070 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3073 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3077 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3080 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3081 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3082 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3083 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3084 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3085 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3086 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3087 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3091 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3097 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3100 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3101 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3102 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3107 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3110 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3114 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3117 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3121 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3124 sections of shared libraries.
3125 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3126 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3127 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3128 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3129 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3130 things you don't want them to.
3131 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3132 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3136 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3139 shared libraries. (#26414)
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3143 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3145 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3146 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3147 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3148 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3152 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3156 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3158 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3159 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3160 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3161 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3162 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3166 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3169 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3173 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3176 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3177 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3182 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3185 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3189 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3192 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3193 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3194 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3195 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3196 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3198 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3199 remove debian/files properly.
3200 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3201 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3202 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3203 * Removed bogus menu file.
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3207 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3210 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3214 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3217 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3218 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3219 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3220 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3221 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3222 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3226 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3229 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3230 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3231 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3232 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3236 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3243 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3246 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3247 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3249 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3250 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3251 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3252 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3253 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3254 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3258 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3261 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3262 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3263 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3264 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3265 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3266 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3267 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3268 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3269 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3270 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3271 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3272 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3273 passed any switches.
3274 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3278 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3281 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3282 at all for a long while.
3283 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3284 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3285 large chunks in the process.
3286 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3287 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3288 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3293 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3296 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3298 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3303 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3306 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3307 that don't always have the same files in them.
3308 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3309 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3310 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3314 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3318 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3319 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3320 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3321 updating 27 man pages.
3322 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3323 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3324 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3325 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3326 programs act on. (#25247)
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3330 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3334 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3335 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3336 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3337 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3338 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3339 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3344 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3351 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3358 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3361 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3365 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3371 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3374 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3375 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3376 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3377 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3378 package by accident.
3379 * Is version 1.0 next?
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3383 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3386 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3387 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3391 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3394 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3395 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3396 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3397 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3398 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3400 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3405 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3408 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3409 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3413 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3416 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3420 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3423 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3424 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3429 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3435 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3438 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3439 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3444 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3450 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3453 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3454 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3455 past week. Thanks, guys!
3457 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3458 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3459 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3460 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3461 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3462 would do in the same situation.
3463 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3464 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3466 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3468 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3469 permissions changed.
3470 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3471 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3472 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3473 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3474 files are treated identically.
3475 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3476 * Minor man page fixes.
3477 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3478 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3479 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3483 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3486 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3487 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3488 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3489 use -X multiple times, too.
3490 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3491 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3495 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3498 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3499 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3503 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3506 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3510 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3513 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3514 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3515 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3516 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3517 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3518 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3519 shape if you're starting a new package.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3523 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3526 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3530 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3533 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3534 because of missing symlinks.
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3538 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3544 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3547 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3548 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3549 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3550 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3551 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3553 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3554 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3558 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3560 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3561 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3562 to be changed after the fact :-)
3563 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3567 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3570 no version string after the -V.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3574 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3576 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3577 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3582 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3585 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3589 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3592 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3593 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3594 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3595 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3596 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3597 I always welcome corrections!
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3601 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3607 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3610 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3611 * Documented this new switch.
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3615 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3618 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3619 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3620 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3621 no packages use the old behavior.
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3625 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3628 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3629 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3633 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3636 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3640 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3646 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3649 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3653 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3656 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3657 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3658 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3662 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3668 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3671 into the source package by accident.
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3675 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3678 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3679 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3680 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3681 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3682 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3683 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3688 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3692 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3693 inspired to implement some of it.
3694 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3698 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3701 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3705 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3708 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3709 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3713 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3716 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3717 have done.) (#17598)
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3721 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3727 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3733 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3736 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3740 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3743 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3744 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3748 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3751 argument processor in perl.
3752 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3753 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3754 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3755 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3759 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3762 type directories. (#16933)
3763 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3764 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3765 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3766 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3767 are supported. (#16935)
3768 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3773 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3776 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3780 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3784 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3785 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3786 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3787 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3788 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3789 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3793 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3796 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3797 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3799 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3800 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3801 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3802 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3803 a given package, or -i or -a.
3804 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3805 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3806 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3807 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3808 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3809 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3810 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3811 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3812 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3814 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3815 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3816 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3820 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3823 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3824 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3829 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3832 does not have a section.
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3836 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3839 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3840 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3841 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3845 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * Fixed typo #16215.
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3851 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3854 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3855 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3856 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3857 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3858 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3863 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3866 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3867 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3868 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3873 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3879 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3885 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3888 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3889 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3890 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3891 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3892 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3893 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3897 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3903 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3906 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3910 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3913 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3914 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3915 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3919 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3922 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3926 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3932 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3935 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3939 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3942 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3946 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3952 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3955 postinst, postrm, etc.
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3959 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3965 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3968 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3969 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3970 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3971 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3972 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3976 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3979 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3980 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3984 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3987 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3991 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3994 installing package files into.
3995 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4000 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4004 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4008 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4014 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4017 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4021 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4023 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4024 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4025 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4026 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4027 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4031 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4033 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4034 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4035 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4036 multiple binary packages.
4037 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4038 should rebuild them with this version.
4039 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4043 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4046 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4050 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4053 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4057 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4060 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4061 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4062 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4063 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4064 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4065 debian/README.debian.
4066 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4067 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4068 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4069 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4070 in a few situations.)
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4074 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4080 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4086 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4089 * Fixed several man pages.
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4093 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4096 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4097 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4101 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4104 is ready for general use.
4105 * Added man pages for all commands.
4106 * Multiple binary package support.
4107 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4108 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4109 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4111 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4112 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4113 auto-installed as parameters.
4114 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4116 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4119 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4120 the package build directory it is to act on.
4121 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4122 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4123 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4127 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4129 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4130 ready to replace debstd.
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400