1 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
5 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
6 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
7 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
8 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
9 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
10 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
11 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
15 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
18 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
22 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
25 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
26 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
27 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
28 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
29 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
30 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
31 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
32 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
33 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
34 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
35 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
36 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
37 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
38 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
39 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
44 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
50 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
53 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
54 * fixed dh_testdir man page
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
58 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Typo, Closes: #122679
61 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
62 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
66 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
72 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
75 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
76 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
77 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
78 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
79 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
84 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
86 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
90 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
93 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
97 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
100 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
105 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Typo, Closes: #114135
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
111 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
114 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
118 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
124 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
128 Also some indentation fixes.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
132 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
135 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
136 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
137 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
138 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
139 Closes: #106514, #85520
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
143 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Typo, Closes: #104405
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
149 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
155 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
157 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
161 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
167 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
173 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
176 change it in debhelper v4..
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
180 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
186 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
189 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
193 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
196 is not essential. Closes: #100430
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
200 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
206 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
209 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
210 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
211 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
212 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
213 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
214 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
215 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
216 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
217 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
218 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
219 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
220 prefixed with ".debhelper")
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
224 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
227 look just like shared libs, but are not.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
231 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
238 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
241 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
242 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
243 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
244 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
245 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
246 program those options go to. So, for example,
247 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
248 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
249 something complex. Closes: #89311
250 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
254 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
257 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
258 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
259 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
263 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
266 through loop. Closes: #98598
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
270 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Missing semi-colon.
273 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
274 this (dh_* should be called, really).
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
278 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
281 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
282 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
283 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
287 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
289 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
290 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
291 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
295 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
298 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
302 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
305 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
306 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
310 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
313 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
314 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
315 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
319 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
322 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
323 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
324 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
328 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
331 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
335 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
341 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Typo, Closes: #92407
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
347 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
353 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
359 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
362 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
366 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
369 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
370 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
371 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
372 followed. Closes: #85483
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
376 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
378 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
379 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
380 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
384 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
387 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
388 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
389 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
390 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
391 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
392 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
393 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
394 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
395 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
396 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
397 Closes: #88464, #77743
398 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
399 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
400 us to deal with that gracefully.
401 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
403 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
404 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
405 a while, Closes: #51225
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
409 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
415 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
418 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
422 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
426 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
431 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
434 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
435 don't make packlist files.
436 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
437 debhelper coding standards.
438 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
439 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
443 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
446 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
450 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
453 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
454 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
455 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
456 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
457 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
458 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
459 but is mildly deprecated.
460 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
461 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
462 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
463 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
464 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
465 switching to statoverrides..
466 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
467 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
468 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
469 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
470 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
471 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
473 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
474 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
475 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
476 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
477 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
478 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
479 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
480 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
481 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
483 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
484 variable names, pod man pages).
485 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
486 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
487 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
488 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
489 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
490 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
491 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
495 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
501 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
508 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
511 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
515 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
517 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
518 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
519 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
523 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
525 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
526 they were previously ignored.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
530 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
532 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
533 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
537 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
539 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
540 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
541 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
545 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
547 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
551 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
553 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
554 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
558 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
560 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
561 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
562 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
563 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
564 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
565 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
566 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
567 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
568 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
569 it is an obsolete program.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
573 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
575 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
579 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
583 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
585 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
589 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
591 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
593 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
595 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
599 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
605 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
607 * typo: Closes, #78567
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
611 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
617 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
623 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
625 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
626 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
627 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
628 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
629 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
630 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
634 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
636 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
637 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
642 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
645 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
646 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
647 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
648 backwards-compatability.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
652 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
654 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
655 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
656 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
657 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
658 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
659 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
660 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
662 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
663 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
664 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
666 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
668 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
669 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
670 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
671 should now be raised to severity important..
672 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
673 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
677 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
680 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
685 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Typo, Closes: #77441
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
691 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Completed the fix from the last version.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
697 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
703 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
705 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
710 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
713 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
714 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
715 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
716 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
720 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
726 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
729 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
730 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
731 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
732 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
733 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
734 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
739 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
742 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
746 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
752 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
755 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
760 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
762 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
763 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
764 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
765 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
766 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
770 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
774 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
777 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
780 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
781 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
784 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
786 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
787 the TODO entry about it.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
791 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
798 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
800 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
801 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
802 prevent that. Closes: #73052
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
806 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Typo, Closes: #72932
809 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
810 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
811 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
812 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
816 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
822 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
829 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
832 (this appears to be logal).
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
836 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
839 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
840 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
841 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
842 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
846 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
852 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
854 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
855 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
856 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
857 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
858 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
862 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
868 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
871 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
875 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
882 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
885 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
886 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
887 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
892 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
899 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
905 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
907 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
908 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
909 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
910 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
911 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
912 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
913 notice until v2 is complete.
914 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
915 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
916 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
917 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
918 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
919 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
921 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
922 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
923 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
924 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
928 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
934 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
941 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
944 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
948 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
955 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
958 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
959 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
960 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
961 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
966 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
969 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
970 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
971 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
976 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
979 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
980 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
984 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
987 just skip files that end in -\d+.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
991 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
994 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
998 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1005 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1008 depend on the build and install targets.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1012 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1015 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1019 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1026 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1032 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1038 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1041 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1042 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1043 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1044 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1045 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1046 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1048 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1049 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1050 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1051 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1052 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1053 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1054 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1058 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1064 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1070 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1073 right place. Closes: #55065
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1077 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1084 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1087 * Copyright date updates.
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1091 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1094 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1099 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1105 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1112 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1118 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1124 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1130 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1133 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1134 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1135 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1136 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1137 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1138 bits until all files have been registered.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1142 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_installmanpages:
1145 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1146 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1147 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1148 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1149 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1150 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1151 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1152 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1153 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1154 otherwise change the result at all.
1156 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1157 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1158 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1159 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1160 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1165 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1171 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1174 act on files that don't exist.
1175 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1176 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1177 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1179 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1180 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1181 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1182 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1186 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1192 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1198 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1201 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1205 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1208 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1210 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1211 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1212 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1216 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1219 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1220 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1221 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1222 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1223 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1224 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1225 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1227 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1229 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1233 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1240 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1246 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1255 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1259 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1265 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1271 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1274 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1275 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1276 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1277 I made some changes, though:
1278 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1279 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1280 that is a clear violation of policy.
1281 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1282 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1283 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1284 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1285 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1286 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1287 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1288 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1289 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1291 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1295 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1301 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1304 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1308 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1311 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1312 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1317 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1323 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1330 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1333 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1334 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1335 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1336 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1337 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1338 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1339 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1343 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1349 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1353 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1354 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1358 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1364 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1367 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1371 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1374 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1375 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1379 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1381 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1386 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1390 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1394 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1397 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1398 for the dependancies to be generated.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1402 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1405 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1409 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1412 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1413 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1414 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1419 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1422 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1423 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1427 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1433 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1439 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1442 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1446 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1452 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1455 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1456 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1457 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1458 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1459 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1460 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1461 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1462 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1463 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1464 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1465 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1466 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1470 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1473 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1474 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1476 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1477 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1478 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1479 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1480 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1481 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1483 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1484 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1488 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1491 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1495 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1502 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1505 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1513 for building debhelper.
1514 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1518 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1525 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1528 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1532 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1535 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1536 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1537 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1538 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1539 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1540 it's always available.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1544 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1547 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1548 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1549 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1553 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1556 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1557 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1561 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1567 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1570 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1574 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1580 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1583 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1584 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1585 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1589 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1592 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1597 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1600 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1601 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1603 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1604 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1608 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1614 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1620 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1623 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1627 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1630 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1631 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1633 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1637 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1640 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1641 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1642 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1646 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1649 things if CDPATH is set.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1653 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1659 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1662 seems to make sense for the transition.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1666 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1669 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1674 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1677 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1678 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1682 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1685 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1689 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1692 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1693 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1694 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1695 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1699 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1705 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1708 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1709 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1710 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1711 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1712 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1713 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1714 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1715 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1716 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1717 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1722 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1725 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1726 * README: mention doc/v2
1727 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1728 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1732 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1734 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1735 be using this script RSN.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1739 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1742 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1743 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1744 more than 1 init script.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1748 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1751 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1755 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Changed perl version detection.
1758 * Changed call to find.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1762 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1765 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1767 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1772 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Really include dh_installpam.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1778 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1781 * Wrote man page for same.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1785 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1788 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1789 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1794 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1801 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1804 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1805 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1806 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1807 x bit was being set!
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1811 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1814 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1815 well. (Closes: 38900)
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1819 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1822 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1823 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1827 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1833 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1840 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1846 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1849 help from Julian Gilbey.
1850 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1851 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1852 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1853 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1854 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1855 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1856 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1861 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1867 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1874 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1880 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1886 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1889 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1893 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1896 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1900 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1903 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1907 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1913 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1916 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1920 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1926 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1932 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1935 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1936 may be deleted. (#35845)
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1940 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Various man page enhancements.
1943 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1948 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1951 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1952 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1956 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1959 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1960 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1961 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1963 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1964 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1969 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1975 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Another very minor typo fix.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1981 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Very minor typo fix.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1987 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1990 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1991 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1995 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2001 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2004 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2005 variables properly (#34850).
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2009 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2015 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2018 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2019 (automatically generated by build process).
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2023 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2025 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2029 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2032 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2033 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2035 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2039 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2042 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2046 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * README: minor typo fix.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2052 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2055 leave it at that. :-)
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2059 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2065 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2071 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2074 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2075 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2076 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2080 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2083 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2087 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2090 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2094 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2097 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2098 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2099 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2100 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2104 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2107 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2108 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2109 Craig Small for spotting this.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2113 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2116 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2117 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2121 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2127 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2130 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2134 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2136 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2137 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2138 working on the last version of debhelper.
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2142 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2145 being made. (#23255)
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2149 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2155 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2158 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2162 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2165 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2166 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2167 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2168 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2172 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2175 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2176 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2177 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2178 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2180 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2181 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2183 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2188 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2194 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2200 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2203 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2204 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2205 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2206 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2207 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2208 suidregister actually supports it.
2209 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2210 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2214 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2221 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2224 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2225 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2226 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2227 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2228 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2229 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2230 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2234 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2236 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2237 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2241 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2244 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2245 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2246 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2247 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2251 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2254 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2256 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2257 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2258 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2259 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2260 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2261 effect, either. (#30118)
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2265 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2271 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2274 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2275 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2279 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2285 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2288 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2289 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2290 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2291 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2295 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2298 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2299 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2303 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2309 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2312 packages, painlessly.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2316 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2322 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2328 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2334 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * The perl conversion is complete.
2338 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2340 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2341 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2342 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2347 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2350 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2351 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2352 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2356 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2359 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2361 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2363 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2364 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2368 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2371 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2372 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2376 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2382 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2385 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2386 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2387 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2388 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2389 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2393 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2396 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2397 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2398 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2399 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2403 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2406 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2410 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2413 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2414 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2415 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2416 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2417 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2418 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2419 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2420 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2424 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2430 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2433 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2434 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2435 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2440 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2443 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2447 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2450 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2454 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2457 sections of shared libraries.
2458 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2459 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2460 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2461 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2462 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2463 things you don't want them to.
2464 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2465 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2469 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2472 shared libraries. (#26414)
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2476 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2478 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2479 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2480 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2481 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2485 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2489 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2491 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2492 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2493 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2494 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2495 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2499 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2502 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2506 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2509 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2510 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2515 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2518 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2522 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2525 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2526 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2527 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2528 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2529 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2531 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2532 remove debian/files properly.
2533 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2534 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2535 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2536 * Removed bogus menu file.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2540 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2543 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2547 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2550 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2551 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2552 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2553 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2554 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2555 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2559 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2562 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2563 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2564 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2565 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2569 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2576 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2579 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2580 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2582 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2583 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2584 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2585 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2586 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2587 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2591 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2594 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2595 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2596 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2597 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2598 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2599 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2600 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2601 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2602 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2603 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2604 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2605 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2606 passed any switches.
2607 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2611 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2614 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2615 at all for a long while.
2616 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2617 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2618 large chunks in the process.
2619 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2620 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2621 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2626 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2629 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2631 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2636 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2639 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2640 that don't always have the same files in them.
2641 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2642 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2643 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2647 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2651 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2652 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2653 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2654 updating 27 man pages.
2655 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2656 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2657 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2658 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2659 programs act on. (#25247)
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2663 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2667 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2668 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2669 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2670 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2671 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2672 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2677 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2684 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2691 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2694 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2698 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2704 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2707 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2708 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2709 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2710 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2711 package by accident.
2712 * Is version 1.0 next?
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2716 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2719 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2720 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2724 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2727 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2728 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2729 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2730 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2731 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2733 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2738 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2741 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2742 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2746 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2749 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2753 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2756 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2757 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2762 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2768 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2771 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2772 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2777 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2783 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2786 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2787 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2788 past week. Thanks, guys!
2790 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2791 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2792 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2793 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2794 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2795 would do in the same situation.
2796 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2797 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2799 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2801 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2802 permissions changed.
2803 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2804 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2805 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2806 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2807 files are treated identically.
2808 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2809 * Minor man page fixes.
2810 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2811 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2812 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2816 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2819 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2820 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2821 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2822 use -X multiple times, too.
2823 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2824 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2828 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2831 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2832 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2836 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2839 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2843 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2846 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2847 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2848 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2849 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2850 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2851 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2852 shape if you're starting a new package.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2856 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2859 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2863 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2866 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2867 because of missing symlinks.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2871 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2877 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2880 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2881 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2882 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2883 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2884 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2886 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2887 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2891 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2893 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2894 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2895 to be changed after the fact :-)
2896 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2900 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2903 no version string after the -V.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2907 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2909 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2910 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2915 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2918 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2922 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2925 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2926 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2927 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2928 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2929 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2930 I always welcome corrections!
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2934 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2940 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2943 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2944 * Documented this new switch.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2948 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2951 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2952 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2953 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2954 no packages use the old behavior.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2958 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2961 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2962 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2966 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2969 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2973 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2979 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2982 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2986 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2989 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2990 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2991 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2995 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3001 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3004 into the source package by accident.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3008 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3011 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3012 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3013 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3014 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3015 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3016 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3021 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3025 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3026 inspired to implement some of it.
3027 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3031 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3034 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3038 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3041 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3042 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3046 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3049 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3050 have done.) (#17598)
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3054 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3060 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3066 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3069 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3073 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3076 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3077 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3081 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3084 argument processor in perl.
3085 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3086 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3087 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3088 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3092 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3095 type directories. (#16933)
3096 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3097 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3098 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3099 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3100 are supported. (#16935)
3101 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3106 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3109 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3113 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3117 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3118 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3119 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3120 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3121 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3122 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3126 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3129 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3130 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3132 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3133 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3134 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3135 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3136 a given package, or -i or -a.
3137 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3138 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3139 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3140 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3141 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3142 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3143 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3144 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3145 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3147 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3148 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3149 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3153 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3156 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3157 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3162 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3165 does not have a section.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3169 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3172 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3173 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3174 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3178 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Fixed typo #16215.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3184 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3187 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3188 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3189 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3190 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3191 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3196 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3199 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3200 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3201 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3206 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3212 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3218 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3221 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3222 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3223 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3224 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3225 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3226 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3230 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3236 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3239 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3243 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3246 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3247 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3248 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3252 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3255 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3259 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3265 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3268 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3272 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3275 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3279 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3285 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3288 postinst, postrm, etc.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3292 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3298 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3301 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3302 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3303 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3304 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3305 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3309 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3312 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3313 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3317 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3320 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3324 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3327 installing package files into.
3328 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3333 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3337 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3341 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3347 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3350 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3354 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3357 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3358 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3359 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3360 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3364 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3366 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3367 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3368 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3369 multiple binary packages.
3370 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3371 should rebuild them with this version.
3372 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3376 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3379 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3383 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3386 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3390 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3393 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3394 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3395 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3396 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3397 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3398 debian/README.debian.
3399 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3400 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3401 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3402 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3403 in a few situations.)
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3407 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3413 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3419 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3422 * Fixed several man pages.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3426 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3429 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3430 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3434 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3437 is ready for general use.
3438 * Added man pages for all commands.
3439 * Multiple binary package support.
3440 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3441 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3442 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3444 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3445 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3446 auto-installed as parameters.
3447 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3449 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3452 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3453 the package build directory it is to act on.
3454 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3455 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3456 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3460 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3462 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3463 ready to replace debstd.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400