1 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
5 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
6 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
10 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
13 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
14 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
16 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
17 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
18 mess, as it uses debian/install.
19 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
20 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
21 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
22 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
23 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
24 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
25 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
26 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
27 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
28 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
29 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
31 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
32 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
33 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
34 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
36 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
37 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
38 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
40 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
41 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
42 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
43 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
44 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
49 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
55 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Typo, Closes: #139176
58 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
62 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
68 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
74 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
80 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
86 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
88 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
89 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
90 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
91 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
92 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
94 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
95 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
99 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
105 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Typo, Closes: #132454
108 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
112 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
115 upset. Closes: #131322
117 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
119 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
121 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
122 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
123 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
124 line, as well as in debian/rules.
125 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
126 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
127 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
128 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
129 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
130 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
131 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
132 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
133 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
134 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
135 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
136 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
138 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
142 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
145 - Better indenting of generated code.
146 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
150 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
154 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
155 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
156 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
157 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
158 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
159 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
160 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
164 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
167 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
171 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
174 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
175 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
176 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
177 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
178 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
179 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
180 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
181 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
182 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
183 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
184 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
185 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
186 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
187 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
188 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
193 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
199 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
202 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
203 * fixed dh_testdir man page
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
207 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Typo, Closes: #122679
210 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
211 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
215 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
221 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
224 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
225 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
226 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
227 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
228 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
233 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
235 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
239 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
242 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
246 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
248 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
249 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
254 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Typo, Closes: #114135
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
260 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
263 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
267 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
273 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
277 Also some indentation fixes.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
281 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
284 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
285 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
286 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
287 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
288 Closes: #106514, #85520
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
292 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Typo, Closes: #104405
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
298 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
304 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
306 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
310 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
316 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
322 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
325 change it in debhelper v4..
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
329 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
335 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
338 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
342 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
345 is not essential. Closes: #100430
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
349 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
355 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
358 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
359 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
360 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
361 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
362 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
363 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
364 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
365 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
366 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
367 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
368 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
369 prefixed with ".debhelper")
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
373 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
376 look just like shared libs, but are not.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
380 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
387 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
389 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
390 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
391 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
392 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
393 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
394 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
395 program those options go to. So, for example,
396 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
397 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
398 something complex. Closes: #89311
399 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
403 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
406 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
407 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
408 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
412 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
415 through loop. Closes: #98598
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
419 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Missing semi-colon.
422 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
423 this (dh_* should be called, really).
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
427 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
430 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
431 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
432 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
436 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
439 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
440 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
444 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
447 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
451 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
454 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
455 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
459 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
462 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
463 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
464 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
468 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
471 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
472 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
473 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
477 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
480 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
484 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
490 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Typo, Closes: #92407
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
496 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
502 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
508 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
511 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
515 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
518 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
519 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
520 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
521 followed. Closes: #85483
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
525 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
527 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
528 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
529 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
533 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
536 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
537 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
538 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
539 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
540 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
541 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
542 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
543 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
544 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
545 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
546 Closes: #88464, #77743
547 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
548 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
549 us to deal with that gracefully.
550 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
552 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
553 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
554 a while, Closes: #51225
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
558 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
564 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
567 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
571 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
575 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
580 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
583 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
584 don't make packlist files.
585 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
586 debhelper coding standards.
587 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
588 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
592 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
595 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
599 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
602 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
603 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
604 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
605 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
606 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
607 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
608 but is mildly deprecated.
609 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
610 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
611 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
612 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
613 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
614 switching to statoverrides..
615 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
616 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
617 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
618 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
619 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
620 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
622 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
623 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
624 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
625 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
626 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
627 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
628 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
629 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
630 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
632 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
633 variable names, pod man pages).
634 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
635 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
636 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
637 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
638 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
639 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
640 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
644 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
650 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
657 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
660 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
664 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
666 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
667 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
668 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
672 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
674 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
675 they were previously ignored.
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
679 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
681 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
682 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
686 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
688 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
689 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
690 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
694 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
696 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
700 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
702 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
703 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
707 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
709 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
710 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
711 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
712 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
713 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
714 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
715 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
716 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
717 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
718 it is an obsolete program.
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
722 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
724 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
728 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
732 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
734 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
738 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
740 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
742 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
744 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
748 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
754 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
756 * typo: Closes, #78567
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
760 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
766 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
768 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
772 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
774 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
775 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
776 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
777 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
778 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
779 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
783 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
786 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
791 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
794 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
795 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
796 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
797 backwards-compatability.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
801 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
803 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
804 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
805 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
806 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
807 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
808 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
809 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
811 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
812 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
813 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
815 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
817 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
818 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
819 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
820 should now be raised to severity important..
821 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
822 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
826 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
829 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
834 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Typo, Closes: #77441
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
840 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Completed the fix from the last version.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
846 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
852 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
854 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
859 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
862 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
863 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
864 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
865 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
869 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
875 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
878 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
879 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
880 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
881 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
882 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
883 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
888 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
891 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
895 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
901 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
904 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
909 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
912 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
913 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
914 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
915 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
919 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
923 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
926 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
929 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
930 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
933 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
935 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
936 the TODO entry about it.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
940 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
947 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
950 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
951 prevent that. Closes: #73052
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
955 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Typo, Closes: #72932
958 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
959 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
960 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
961 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
965 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
971 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
978 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
981 (this appears to be logal).
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
985 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
988 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
989 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
990 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
991 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
995 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1001 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1004 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1005 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1006 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1007 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1011 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1017 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1020 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1024 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1031 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1034 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1035 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1036 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1041 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1048 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1054 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1057 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1058 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1059 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1060 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1061 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1062 notice until v2 is complete.
1063 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1064 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1065 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1066 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1067 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1068 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1070 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1071 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1072 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1073 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1077 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1083 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1090 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1093 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1097 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1104 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1107 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1108 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1109 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1110 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1115 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1118 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1119 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1120 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1125 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1128 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1129 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1133 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1136 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1140 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1143 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1147 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1154 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1157 depend on the build and install targets.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1161 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1164 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1168 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1175 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1181 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1187 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1190 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1191 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1192 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1193 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1194 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1195 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1197 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1198 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1199 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1200 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1201 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1202 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1203 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1207 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1213 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1219 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1222 right place. Closes: #55065
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1226 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1233 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1236 * Copyright date updates.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1240 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1243 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1248 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1254 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1261 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1267 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1273 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1279 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1282 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1283 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1284 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1285 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1286 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1287 bits until all files have been registered.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1291 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_installmanpages:
1294 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1295 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1296 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1297 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1298 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1299 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1300 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1301 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1302 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1303 otherwise change the result at all.
1305 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1306 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1307 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1308 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1309 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1314 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1320 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1323 act on files that don't exist.
1324 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1325 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1326 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1328 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1329 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1330 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1331 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1335 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1341 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1347 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1350 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1354 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1357 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1359 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1360 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1361 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1365 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1368 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1369 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1370 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1371 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1372 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1373 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1374 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1376 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1378 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1382 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1389 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1395 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1401 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1404 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1408 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1414 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1420 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1423 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1424 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1425 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1426 I made some changes, though:
1427 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1428 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1429 that is a clear violation of policy.
1430 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1431 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1432 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1433 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1434 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1435 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1436 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1437 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1438 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1440 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1444 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1450 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1453 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1457 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1460 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1461 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1466 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1472 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1479 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1482 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1483 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1484 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1485 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1486 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1487 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1488 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1492 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1498 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1502 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1503 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1507 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1513 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1516 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1520 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1523 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1524 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1528 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1530 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1535 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1539 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1543 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1546 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1547 for the dependancies to be generated.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1551 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1554 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1558 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1561 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1562 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1563 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1568 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1571 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1572 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1576 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1582 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1588 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1591 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1595 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1601 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1604 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1605 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1606 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1607 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1608 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1609 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1610 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1611 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1612 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1613 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1614 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1615 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1619 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1622 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1623 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1625 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1626 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1627 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1628 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1629 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1630 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1632 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1633 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1637 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1640 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1644 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1651 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1654 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1659 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1662 for building debhelper.
1663 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1667 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1674 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1677 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1681 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1684 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1685 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1686 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1687 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1688 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1689 it's always available.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1693 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1696 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1697 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1698 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1702 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1705 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1706 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1710 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1716 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1719 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1723 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1729 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1732 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1733 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1734 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1738 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1741 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1746 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1749 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1750 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1752 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1753 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1757 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1763 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1772 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1776 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1779 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1780 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1782 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1786 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1789 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1790 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1791 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1795 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1798 things if CDPATH is set.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1802 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1808 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1811 seems to make sense for the transition.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1818 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1823 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1826 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1827 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1831 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1834 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1838 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1841 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1842 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1843 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1844 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1848 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1854 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1857 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1858 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1859 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1860 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1861 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1862 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1863 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1864 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1865 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1866 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1871 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1874 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1875 * README: mention doc/v2
1876 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1877 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1881 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1883 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1884 be using this script RSN.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1888 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1891 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1892 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1893 more than 1 init script.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1897 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1900 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1904 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Changed perl version detection.
1907 * Changed call to find.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1911 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1914 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1916 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1921 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Really include dh_installpam.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1927 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1930 * Wrote man page for same.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1934 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1937 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1938 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1943 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1950 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1953 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1954 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1955 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1956 x bit was being set!
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1960 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1963 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1964 well. (Closes: 38900)
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1968 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1971 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1972 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1976 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1982 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1989 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1995 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1998 help from Julian Gilbey.
1999 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2000 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2001 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2002 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2003 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2004 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2005 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2010 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2016 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2023 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2029 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2035 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2038 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2042 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2045 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2049 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2052 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2056 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2062 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2065 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2069 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2075 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2081 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2084 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2085 may be deleted. (#35845)
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2089 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Various man page enhancements.
2092 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2097 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2100 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2101 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2105 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2108 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2109 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2110 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2112 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2113 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2118 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2124 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Another very minor typo fix.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2130 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Very minor typo fix.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2136 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2139 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2140 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2144 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2150 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2153 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2154 variables properly (#34850).
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2158 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2164 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2167 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2168 (automatically generated by build process).
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2172 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2174 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2178 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2181 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2182 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2184 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2188 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2191 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2195 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * README: minor typo fix.
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2201 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2204 leave it at that. :-)
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2208 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2214 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2220 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2223 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2224 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2225 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2229 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2232 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2236 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2239 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2243 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2246 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2247 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2248 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2249 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2253 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2256 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2257 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2258 Craig Small for spotting this.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2262 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2265 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2266 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2270 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2276 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2279 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2283 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2285 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2286 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2287 working on the last version of debhelper.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2291 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2294 being made. (#23255)
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2298 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2304 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2307 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2311 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2314 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2315 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2316 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2317 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2321 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2324 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2325 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2326 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2327 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2329 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2330 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2332 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2337 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2343 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2349 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2352 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2353 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2354 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2355 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2356 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2357 suidregister actually supports it.
2358 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2359 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2363 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2370 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2373 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2374 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2375 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2376 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2377 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2378 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2379 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2383 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2385 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2386 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2390 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2393 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2394 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2395 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2396 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2400 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2403 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2405 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2406 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2407 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2408 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2409 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2410 effect, either. (#30118)
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2414 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2420 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2423 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2424 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2428 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2434 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2437 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2438 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2439 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2440 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2444 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2447 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2448 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2452 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2458 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2461 packages, painlessly.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2465 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2471 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2477 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2483 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * The perl conversion is complete.
2487 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2489 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2490 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2491 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2496 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2499 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2500 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2501 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2505 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2508 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2510 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2512 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2513 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2517 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2520 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2521 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2525 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2531 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2534 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2535 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2536 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2537 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2538 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2542 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2545 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2546 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2547 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2548 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2552 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2555 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2559 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2562 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2563 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2564 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2565 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2566 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2567 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2568 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2569 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2573 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2579 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2582 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2583 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2584 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2589 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2592 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2596 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2599 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2603 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2606 sections of shared libraries.
2607 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2608 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2609 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2610 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2611 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2612 things you don't want them to.
2613 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2614 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2618 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2621 shared libraries. (#26414)
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2625 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2627 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2628 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2629 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2630 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2634 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2638 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2640 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2641 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2642 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2643 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2644 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2648 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2651 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2655 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2658 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2659 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2664 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2667 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2671 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2674 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2675 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2676 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2677 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2678 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2680 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2681 remove debian/files properly.
2682 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2683 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2684 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2685 * Removed bogus menu file.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2689 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2692 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2696 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2699 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2700 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2701 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2702 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2703 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2704 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2708 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2711 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2712 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2713 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2714 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2718 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2725 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2728 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2729 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2731 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2732 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2733 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2734 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2735 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2736 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2740 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2743 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2744 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2745 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2746 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2747 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2748 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2749 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2750 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2751 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2752 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2753 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2754 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2755 passed any switches.
2756 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2760 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2763 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2764 at all for a long while.
2765 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2766 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2767 large chunks in the process.
2768 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2769 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2770 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2775 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2778 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2780 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2785 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2788 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2789 that don't always have the same files in them.
2790 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2791 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2792 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2796 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2800 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2801 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2802 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2803 updating 27 man pages.
2804 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2805 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2806 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2807 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2808 programs act on. (#25247)
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2812 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2816 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2817 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2818 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2819 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2820 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2821 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2826 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2833 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2840 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2843 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2847 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2853 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2856 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2857 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2858 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2859 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2860 package by accident.
2861 * Is version 1.0 next?
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2865 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2868 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2869 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2873 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2876 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2877 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2878 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2879 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2880 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2882 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2887 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2890 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2891 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2895 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2898 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2902 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2905 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2906 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2911 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2917 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2920 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2921 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2926 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2932 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2935 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2936 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2937 past week. Thanks, guys!
2939 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2940 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2941 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2942 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2943 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2944 would do in the same situation.
2945 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2946 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2948 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2950 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2951 permissions changed.
2952 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2953 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2954 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2955 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2956 files are treated identically.
2957 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2958 * Minor man page fixes.
2959 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2960 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2961 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2965 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2968 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2969 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2970 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2971 use -X multiple times, too.
2972 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2973 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2977 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2980 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2981 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2985 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2988 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2992 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2995 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2996 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2997 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2998 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2999 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3000 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3001 shape if you're starting a new package.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3005 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3008 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3012 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3015 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3016 because of missing symlinks.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3020 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3026 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3029 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3030 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3031 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3032 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3033 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3035 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3036 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3040 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3042 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3043 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3044 to be changed after the fact :-)
3045 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3049 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3052 no version string after the -V.
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3056 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3058 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3059 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3064 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3067 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3071 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3074 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3075 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3076 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3077 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3078 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3079 I always welcome corrections!
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3083 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3089 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3092 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3093 * Documented this new switch.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3097 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3100 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3101 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3102 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3103 no packages use the old behavior.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3107 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3110 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3111 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3115 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3118 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3122 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3128 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3131 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3135 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3138 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3139 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3140 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3144 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3150 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3153 into the source package by accident.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3157 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3160 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3161 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3162 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3163 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3164 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3165 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3170 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3174 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3175 inspired to implement some of it.
3176 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3180 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3183 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3187 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3190 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3191 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3195 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3198 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3199 have done.) (#17598)
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3203 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3209 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3215 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3218 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3222 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3225 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3226 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3230 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3233 argument processor in perl.
3234 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3235 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3236 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3237 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3241 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3244 type directories. (#16933)
3245 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3246 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3247 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3248 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3249 are supported. (#16935)
3250 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3255 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3258 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3262 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3266 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3267 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3268 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3269 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3270 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3271 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3275 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3278 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3279 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3281 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3282 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3283 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3284 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3285 a given package, or -i or -a.
3286 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3287 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3288 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3289 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3290 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3291 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3292 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3293 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3294 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3296 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3297 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3298 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3302 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3305 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3306 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3311 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3314 does not have a section.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3318 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3321 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3322 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3323 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3327 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Fixed typo #16215.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3333 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3336 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3337 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3338 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3339 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3340 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3345 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3348 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3349 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3350 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3355 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3361 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3367 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3370 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3371 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3372 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3373 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3374 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3375 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3379 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3385 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3388 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3392 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3395 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3396 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3397 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3401 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3404 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3408 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3414 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3417 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3421 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3424 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3428 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3434 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3437 postinst, postrm, etc.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3441 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3447 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3450 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3451 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3452 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3453 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3454 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3458 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3461 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3462 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3466 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3469 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3473 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3476 installing package files into.
3477 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3482 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3486 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3490 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3496 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3499 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3503 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3506 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3507 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3508 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3509 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3513 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3515 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3516 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3517 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3518 multiple binary packages.
3519 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3520 should rebuild them with this version.
3521 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3525 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3528 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3532 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3535 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3539 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3542 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3543 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3544 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3545 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3546 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3547 debian/README.debian.
3548 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3549 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3550 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3551 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3552 in a few situations.)
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3556 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3562 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3568 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3571 * Fixed several man pages.
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3575 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3578 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3579 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3583 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3586 is ready for general use.
3587 * Added man pages for all commands.
3588 * Multiple binary package support.
3589 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3590 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3591 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3593 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3594 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3595 auto-installed as parameters.
3596 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3598 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3601 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3602 the package build directory it is to act on.
3603 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3604 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3605 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3609 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3611 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3612 ready to replace debstd.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400