1 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
7 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
13 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
15 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
19 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
21 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
22 change it in debhelper v4..
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
26 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
32 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
35 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
39 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
42 is not essential. Closes: #100430
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
46 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
52 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
55 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
56 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
57 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
58 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
59 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
60 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
61 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
62 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
63 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
64 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
65 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
66 prefixed with ".debhelper")
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
70 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
73 look just like shared libs, but are not.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
77 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
84 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
87 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
88 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
89 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
90 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
91 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
92 program those options go to. So, for example,
93 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
94 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
95 something complex. Closes: #89311
96 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
100 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
103 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
104 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
105 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
109 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
111 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
112 through loop. Closes: #98598
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
116 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Missing semi-colon.
119 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
120 this (dh_* should be called, really).
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
124 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
127 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
128 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
129 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
133 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
135 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
136 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
137 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
141 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
144 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
148 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
150 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
151 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
152 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
156 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
159 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
160 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
161 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
165 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
168 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
169 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
170 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
174 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
177 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
181 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
187 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Typo, Closes: #92407
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
193 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
195 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
199 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
205 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
208 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
212 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
215 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
216 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
217 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
218 followed. Closes: #85483
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
222 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
224 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
225 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
226 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
230 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
233 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
234 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
235 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
236 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
237 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
238 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
239 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
240 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
241 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
242 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
243 Closes: #88464, #77743
244 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
245 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
246 us to deal with that gracefully.
247 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
249 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
250 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
251 a while, Closes: #51225
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
255 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
261 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
264 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
268 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
272 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
277 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
280 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
281 don't make packlist files.
282 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
283 debhelper coding standards.
284 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
285 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
289 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
292 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
296 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
299 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
300 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
301 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
302 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
303 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
304 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
305 but is mildly deprecated.
306 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
307 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
308 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
309 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
310 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
311 switching to statoverrides..
312 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
313 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
314 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
315 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
316 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
317 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
319 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
320 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
321 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
322 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
323 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
324 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
325 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
326 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
327 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
329 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
330 variable names, pod man pages).
331 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
332 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
333 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
334 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
335 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
336 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
337 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
341 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
347 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
354 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
356 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
357 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
361 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
363 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
364 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
365 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
369 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
371 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
372 they were previously ignored.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
376 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
378 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
379 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
383 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
385 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
386 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
387 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
391 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
393 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
397 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
399 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
400 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
404 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
406 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
407 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
408 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
409 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
410 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
411 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
412 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
413 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
414 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
415 it is an obsolete program.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
419 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
421 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
425 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
429 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
431 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
435 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
437 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
439 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
441 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
445 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
451 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
453 * typo: Closes, #78567
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
457 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
459 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
463 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
469 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
471 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
472 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
473 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
474 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
475 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
476 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
480 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
483 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
488 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
491 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
492 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
493 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
494 backwards-compatability.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
498 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
500 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
501 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
502 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
503 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
504 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
505 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
506 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
508 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
509 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
510 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
512 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
514 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
515 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
516 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
517 should now be raised to severity important..
518 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
519 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
523 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
526 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
531 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Typo, Closes: #77441
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
537 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Completed the fix from the last version.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
543 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
549 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
551 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
556 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
559 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
560 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
561 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
562 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
566 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
572 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
575 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
576 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
577 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
578 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
579 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
580 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
585 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
588 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
592 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
598 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
601 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
606 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
609 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
610 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
611 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
612 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
616 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
620 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
623 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
626 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
627 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
630 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
632 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
633 the TODO entry about it.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
637 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
644 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
647 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
648 prevent that. Closes: #73052
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
652 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Typo, Closes: #72932
655 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
656 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
657 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
658 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
662 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
668 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
675 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
678 (this appears to be logal).
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
682 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
685 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
686 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
687 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
688 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
692 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
698 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
700 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
701 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
702 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
703 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
704 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
708 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
714 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
716 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
717 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
721 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
728 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
731 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
732 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
733 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
738 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
745 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
751 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
753 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
754 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
755 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
756 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
757 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
758 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
759 notice until v2 is complete.
760 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
761 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
762 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
763 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
764 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
765 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
767 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
768 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
769 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
770 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
774 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
776 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
780 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
782 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
787 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
790 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
794 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
801 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
804 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
805 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
806 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
807 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
812 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
815 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
816 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
817 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
822 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
825 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
826 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
830 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
833 just skip files that end in -\d+.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
837 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
840 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
844 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
851 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
853 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
854 depend on the build and install targets.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
858 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
861 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
865 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
872 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
878 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
884 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
887 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
888 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
889 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
890 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
891 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
892 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
894 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
895 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
896 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
897 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
898 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
899 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
900 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
904 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
910 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
916 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
918 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
919 right place. Closes: #55065
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
923 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
930 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Make all examples rules files executable.
933 * Copyright date updates.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
937 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
940 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
945 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
951 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
958 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
964 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
970 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
976 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
979 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
980 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
981 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
982 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
983 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
984 bits until all files have been registered.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
988 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_installmanpages:
991 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
992 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
993 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
994 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
995 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
996 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
997 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
998 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
999 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1000 otherwise change the result at all.
1002 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1003 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1004 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1005 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1006 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1011 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1017 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1020 act on files that don't exist.
1021 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1022 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1023 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1025 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1026 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1027 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1028 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1032 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1038 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1044 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1047 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1051 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1054 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1056 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1057 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1058 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1062 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1065 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1066 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1067 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1068 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1069 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1070 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1071 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1073 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1075 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1079 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1086 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1092 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1098 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1101 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1105 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1111 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1117 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1120 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1121 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1122 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1123 I made some changes, though:
1124 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1125 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1126 that is a clear violation of policy.
1127 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1128 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1129 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1130 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1131 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1132 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1133 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1134 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1135 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1137 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1141 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1147 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1150 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1154 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1157 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1158 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1163 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1169 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1176 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1179 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1180 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1181 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1182 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1183 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1184 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1185 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1189 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1195 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1199 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1200 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1204 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1210 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1213 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1217 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1220 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1221 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1225 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1227 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1232 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1236 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1240 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1243 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1244 for the dependancies to be generated.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1248 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1251 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1255 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1258 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1259 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1260 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1265 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1268 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1269 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1273 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1279 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1285 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1288 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1292 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1298 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1301 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1302 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1303 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1304 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1305 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1306 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1307 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1308 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1309 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1310 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1311 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1312 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1319 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1320 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1322 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1323 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1324 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1325 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1326 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1327 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1329 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1330 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1334 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1337 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1341 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1348 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1351 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1356 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1359 for building debhelper.
1360 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1364 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1371 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1374 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1378 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1381 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1382 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1383 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1384 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1385 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1386 it's always available.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1390 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1393 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1394 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1395 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1399 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1402 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1403 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1407 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1413 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1416 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1420 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1426 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1429 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1430 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1431 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1435 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1438 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1443 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1446 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1447 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1449 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1450 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1454 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1460 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1466 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1469 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1473 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1476 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1477 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1479 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1483 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1486 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1487 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1488 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1492 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1495 things if CDPATH is set.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1499 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1505 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1508 seems to make sense for the transition.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1512 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1515 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1520 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1523 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1524 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1528 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1531 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1535 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1538 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1539 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1540 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1541 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1545 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1551 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1554 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1555 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1556 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1557 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1558 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1559 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1560 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1561 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1562 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1563 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1568 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1571 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1572 * README: mention doc/v2
1573 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1574 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1578 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1580 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1581 be using this script RSN.
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1585 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1588 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1589 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1590 more than 1 init script.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1594 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1597 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1601 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Changed perl version detection.
1604 * Changed call to find.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1608 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1611 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1613 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1618 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Really include dh_installpam.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1624 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1627 * Wrote man page for same.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1631 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1634 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1635 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1640 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1647 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1650 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1651 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1652 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1653 x bit was being set!
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1657 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1660 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1661 well. (Closes: 38900)
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1665 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1668 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1669 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1673 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1679 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1686 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1692 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1695 help from Julian Gilbey.
1696 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1697 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1698 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1699 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1700 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1701 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1702 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1707 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1713 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1720 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1726 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1732 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1735 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1739 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1742 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1746 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1749 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1753 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1759 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1762 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1766 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1772 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1778 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1781 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1782 may be deleted. (#35845)
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1786 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Various man page enhancements.
1789 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1794 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1797 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1798 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1802 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1805 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1806 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1807 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1809 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1810 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1815 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1821 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Another very minor typo fix.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1827 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Very minor typo fix.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1833 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1836 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1837 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1841 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1847 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1850 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1851 variables properly (#34850).
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1855 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1861 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1864 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1865 (automatically generated by build process).
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1869 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1871 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1875 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1878 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1879 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1881 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1885 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1888 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1892 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * README: minor typo fix.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1898 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1901 leave it at that. :-)
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1905 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1911 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1917 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1920 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1921 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1922 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1926 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1929 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1933 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1936 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1940 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1943 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1944 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1945 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1946 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1950 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1953 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1954 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1955 Craig Small for spotting this.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1959 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1962 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1963 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1967 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1973 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1976 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1980 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1982 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1983 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1984 working on the last version of debhelper.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1988 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1991 being made. (#23255)
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1995 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2001 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2004 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2008 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2011 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2012 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2013 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2014 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2018 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2021 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2022 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2023 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2024 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2026 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2027 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2029 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2034 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2040 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2046 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2049 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2050 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2051 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2052 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2053 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2054 suidregister actually supports it.
2055 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2056 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2060 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2067 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2070 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2071 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2072 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2073 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2074 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2075 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2076 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2080 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2082 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2083 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2087 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2090 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2091 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2092 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2093 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2097 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2100 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2102 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2103 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2104 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2105 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2106 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2107 effect, either. (#30118)
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2111 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2117 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2120 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2121 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2125 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2131 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2134 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2135 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2136 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2137 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2141 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2144 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2145 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2149 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2155 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2158 packages, painlessly.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2162 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2168 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2174 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2180 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * The perl conversion is complete.
2184 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2186 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2187 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2188 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2193 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2196 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2197 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2198 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2202 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2205 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2207 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2209 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2210 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2214 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2217 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2218 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2222 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2228 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2231 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2232 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2233 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2234 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2235 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2239 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2242 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2243 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2244 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2245 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2249 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2252 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2256 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2259 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2260 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2261 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2262 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2263 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2264 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2265 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2266 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2270 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2276 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2279 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2280 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2281 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2286 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2289 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2293 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2296 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2300 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2303 sections of shared libraries.
2304 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2305 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2306 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2307 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2308 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2309 things you don't want them to.
2310 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2311 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2315 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2318 shared libraries. (#26414)
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2322 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2324 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2325 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2326 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2327 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2331 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2335 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2337 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2338 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2339 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2340 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2341 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2345 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2348 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2352 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2355 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2356 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2361 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2364 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2368 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2371 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2372 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2373 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2374 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2375 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2377 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2378 remove debian/files properly.
2379 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2380 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2381 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2382 * Removed bogus menu file.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2386 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2389 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2393 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2396 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2397 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2398 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2399 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2400 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2401 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2405 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2408 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2409 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2410 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2411 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2415 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2422 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2425 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2426 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2428 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2429 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2430 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2431 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2432 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2433 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2437 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2440 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2441 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2442 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2443 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2444 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2445 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2446 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2447 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2448 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2449 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2450 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2451 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2452 passed any switches.
2453 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2457 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2460 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2461 at all for a long while.
2462 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2463 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2464 large chunks in the process.
2465 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2466 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2467 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2472 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2475 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2477 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2482 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2485 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2486 that don't always have the same files in them.
2487 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2488 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2489 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2493 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2497 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2498 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2499 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2500 updating 27 man pages.
2501 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2502 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2503 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2504 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2505 programs act on. (#25247)
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2509 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2513 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2514 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2515 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2516 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2517 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2518 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2523 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2530 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2537 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2540 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2544 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2550 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2553 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2554 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2555 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2556 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2557 package by accident.
2558 * Is version 1.0 next?
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2562 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2565 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2566 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2570 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2573 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2574 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2575 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2576 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2577 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2579 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2584 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2587 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2588 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2592 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2595 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2599 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2602 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2603 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2608 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2614 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2617 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2618 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2623 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2629 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2632 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2633 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2634 past week. Thanks, guys!
2636 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2637 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2638 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2639 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2640 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2641 would do in the same situation.
2642 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2643 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2645 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2647 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2648 permissions changed.
2649 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2650 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2651 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2652 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2653 files are treated identically.
2654 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2655 * Minor man page fixes.
2656 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2657 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2658 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2662 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2665 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2666 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2667 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2668 use -X multiple times, too.
2669 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2670 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2674 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2677 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2678 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2682 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2685 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2689 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2692 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2693 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2694 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2695 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2696 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2697 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2698 shape if you're starting a new package.
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2702 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2705 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2709 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2712 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2713 because of missing symlinks.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2717 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2723 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2726 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2727 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2728 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2729 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2730 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2732 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2733 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2737 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2739 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2740 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2741 to be changed after the fact :-)
2742 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2746 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2749 no version string after the -V.
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2753 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2755 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2756 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2761 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2764 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2768 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2771 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2772 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2773 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2774 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2775 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2776 I always welcome corrections!
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2780 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2786 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2789 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2790 * Documented this new switch.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2794 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2797 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2798 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2799 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2800 no packages use the old behavior.
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2804 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2807 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2808 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2812 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2815 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2819 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2825 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2828 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2832 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2835 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2836 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2837 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2841 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2847 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2850 into the source package by accident.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2854 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2857 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2858 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2859 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2860 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2861 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2862 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2867 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2871 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2872 inspired to implement some of it.
2873 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2877 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2880 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2884 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2887 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2888 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2892 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2895 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2896 have done.) (#17598)
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2900 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2906 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2912 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2915 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2919 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2922 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2923 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2927 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2930 argument processor in perl.
2931 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2932 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2933 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2934 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2938 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2941 type directories. (#16933)
2942 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2943 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2944 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2945 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2946 are supported. (#16935)
2947 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2952 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2955 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2959 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2963 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2964 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2965 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2966 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2967 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2968 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2972 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2975 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2976 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2978 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2979 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2980 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2981 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2982 a given package, or -i or -a.
2983 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2984 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2985 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2986 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2987 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2988 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2989 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2990 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2991 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2993 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2994 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2995 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2999 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3002 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3003 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3008 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3011 does not have a section.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3015 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3018 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3019 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3020 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3024 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Fixed typo #16215.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3030 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3033 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3034 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3035 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3036 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3037 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3042 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3045 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3046 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3047 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3052 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3058 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3064 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3067 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3068 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3069 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3070 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3071 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3072 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3076 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3082 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3085 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3089 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3092 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3093 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3094 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3098 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3101 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3105 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3111 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3114 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3118 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3121 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3125 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3131 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3134 postinst, postrm, etc.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3138 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3144 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3147 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3148 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3149 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3150 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3151 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3155 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3158 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3159 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3163 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3166 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3170 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3173 installing package files into.
3174 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3179 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3183 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3187 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3193 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3196 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3200 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3203 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3204 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3205 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3206 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3210 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3212 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3213 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3214 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3215 multiple binary packages.
3216 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3217 should rebuild them with this version.
3218 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3222 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3225 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3229 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3232 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3236 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3239 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3240 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3241 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3242 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3243 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3244 debian/README.debian.
3245 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3246 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3247 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3248 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3249 in a few situations.)
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3253 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3259 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3265 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3268 * Fixed several man pages.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3272 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3275 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3276 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3280 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3283 is ready for general use.
3284 * Added man pages for all commands.
3285 * Multiple binary package support.
3286 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3287 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3288 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3290 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3291 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3292 auto-installed as parameters.
3293 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3295 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3298 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3299 the package build directory it is to act on.
3300 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3301 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3302 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3306 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3308 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3309 ready to replace debstd.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400