1 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
7 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
10 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
11 * fixed dh_testdir man page
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
15 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Typo, Closes: #122679
18 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
19 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
23 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
29 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
32 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
33 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
34 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
35 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
36 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
41 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
43 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
47 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
50 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
54 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
57 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
62 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Typo, Closes: #114135
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
68 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
71 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
75 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
81 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
85 Also some indentation fixes.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
89 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
92 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
93 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
94 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
95 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
96 Closes: #106514, #85520
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
100 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Typo, Closes: #104405
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
106 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
112 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
114 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
118 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
124 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
130 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
133 change it in debhelper v4..
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
137 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
143 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
146 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
150 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
153 is not essential. Closes: #100430
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
157 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
163 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
166 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
167 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
168 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
169 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
170 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
171 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
172 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
173 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
174 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
175 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
176 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
177 prefixed with ".debhelper")
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
181 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
184 look just like shared libs, but are not.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
188 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
195 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
198 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
199 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
200 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
201 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
202 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
203 program those options go to. So, for example,
204 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
205 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
206 something complex. Closes: #89311
207 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
211 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
214 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
215 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
216 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
220 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
223 through loop. Closes: #98598
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
227 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Missing semi-colon.
230 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
231 this (dh_* should be called, really).
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
235 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
238 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
239 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
240 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
244 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
247 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
248 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
252 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
255 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
259 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
262 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
263 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
267 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
270 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
271 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
272 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
276 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
279 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
280 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
281 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
285 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
288 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
292 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
298 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
300 * Typo, Closes: #92407
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
304 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
310 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
316 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
319 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
323 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
326 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
327 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
328 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
329 followed. Closes: #85483
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
333 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
335 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
336 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
337 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
341 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
344 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
345 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
346 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
347 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
348 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
349 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
350 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
351 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
352 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
353 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
354 Closes: #88464, #77743
355 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
356 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
357 us to deal with that gracefully.
358 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
360 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
361 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
362 a while, Closes: #51225
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
366 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
372 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
375 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
379 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
383 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
388 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
391 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
392 don't make packlist files.
393 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
394 debhelper coding standards.
395 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
396 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
400 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
403 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
407 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
410 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
411 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
412 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
413 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
414 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
415 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
416 but is mildly deprecated.
417 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
418 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
419 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
420 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
421 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
422 switching to statoverrides..
423 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
424 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
425 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
426 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
427 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
428 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
430 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
431 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
432 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
433 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
434 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
435 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
436 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
437 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
438 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
440 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
441 variable names, pod man pages).
442 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
443 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
444 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
445 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
446 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
447 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
448 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
452 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
458 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
465 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
467 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
468 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
472 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
474 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
475 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
476 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
480 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
482 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
483 they were previously ignored.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
487 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
489 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
490 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
494 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
496 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
497 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
498 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
502 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
504 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
508 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
510 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
511 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
515 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
517 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
518 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
519 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
520 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
521 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
522 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
523 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
524 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
525 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
526 it is an obsolete program.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
530 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
532 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
536 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
540 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
542 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
546 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
548 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
550 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
552 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
556 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
562 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
564 * typo: Closes, #78567
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
568 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
574 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
580 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
582 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
583 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
584 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
585 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
586 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
587 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
591 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
594 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
599 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
602 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
603 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
604 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
605 backwards-compatability.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
609 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
611 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
612 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
613 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
614 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
615 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
616 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
617 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
619 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
620 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
621 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
623 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
625 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
626 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
627 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
628 should now be raised to severity important..
629 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
630 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
634 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
637 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
642 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Typo, Closes: #77441
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
648 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Completed the fix from the last version.
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
654 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
660 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
662 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
667 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
670 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
671 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
672 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
673 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
677 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
683 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
686 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
687 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
688 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
689 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
690 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
691 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
696 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
699 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
703 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
709 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
712 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
717 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
720 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
721 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
722 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
723 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
727 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
731 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
734 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
737 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
738 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
741 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
743 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
744 the TODO entry about it.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
748 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
755 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
758 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
759 prevent that. Closes: #73052
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
763 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Typo, Closes: #72932
766 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
767 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
768 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
769 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
773 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
775 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
779 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
786 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
789 (this appears to be logal).
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
793 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
796 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
797 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
798 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
799 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
803 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
809 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
811 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
812 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
813 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
814 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
815 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
819 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
825 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
828 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
832 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
839 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
842 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
843 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
844 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
849 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
856 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
862 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
864 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
865 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
866 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
867 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
868 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
869 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
870 notice until v2 is complete.
871 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
872 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
873 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
874 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
875 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
876 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
878 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
879 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
880 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
881 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
885 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
891 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
898 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
901 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
905 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
912 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
915 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
916 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
917 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
918 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
923 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
926 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
927 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
928 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
933 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
936 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
937 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
941 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
944 just skip files that end in -\d+.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
948 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
951 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
955 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
962 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
964 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
965 depend on the build and install targets.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
969 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
972 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
976 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
983 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
989 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
995 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
998 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
999 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1000 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1001 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1002 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1003 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1005 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1006 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1007 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1008 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1009 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1010 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1011 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1015 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1021 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1027 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1030 right place. Closes: #55065
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1034 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1041 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1044 * Copyright date updates.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1048 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1051 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1056 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1062 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1069 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1075 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1081 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1087 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1090 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1091 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1092 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1093 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1094 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1095 bits until all files have been registered.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1099 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_installmanpages:
1102 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1103 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1104 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1105 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1106 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1107 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1108 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1109 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1110 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1111 otherwise change the result at all.
1113 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1114 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1115 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1116 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1117 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1122 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1128 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1131 act on files that don't exist.
1132 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1133 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1134 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1136 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1137 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1138 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1139 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1143 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1149 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1155 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1158 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1162 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1165 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1167 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1168 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1169 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1173 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1176 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1177 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1178 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1179 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1180 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1181 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1182 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1184 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1186 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1190 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1197 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1203 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1209 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1212 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1222 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1228 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1231 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1232 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1233 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1234 I made some changes, though:
1235 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1236 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1237 that is a clear violation of policy.
1238 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1239 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1240 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1241 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1242 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1243 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1244 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1245 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1246 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1248 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1258 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1261 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1265 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1268 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1269 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1274 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1280 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1287 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1290 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1291 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1292 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1293 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1294 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1295 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1296 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1300 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1306 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1310 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1311 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1315 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1321 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1324 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1328 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1331 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1332 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1336 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1338 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1343 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1347 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1351 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1354 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1355 for the dependancies to be generated.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1359 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1362 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1366 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1369 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1370 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1371 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1376 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1379 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1380 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1384 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1390 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1396 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1399 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1403 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1409 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1412 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1413 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1414 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1415 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1416 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1417 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1418 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1419 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1420 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1421 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1422 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1423 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1427 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1430 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1431 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1433 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1434 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1435 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1436 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1437 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1438 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1440 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1441 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1445 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1448 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1452 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1459 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1462 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1467 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1470 for building debhelper.
1471 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1475 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1482 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1485 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1492 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1493 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1494 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1495 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1496 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1497 it's always available.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1501 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1504 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1505 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1506 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1513 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1514 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1518 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1524 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1527 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1531 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1537 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1540 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1541 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1542 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1546 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1549 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1554 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1557 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1558 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1560 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1561 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1565 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1571 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1577 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1580 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1584 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1587 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1588 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1590 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1594 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1597 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1598 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1599 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1603 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1606 things if CDPATH is set.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1610 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1616 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1619 seems to make sense for the transition.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1623 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1626 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1631 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1634 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1635 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1639 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1642 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1646 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1649 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1650 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1651 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1652 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1656 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1662 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1665 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1666 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1667 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1668 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1669 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1670 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1671 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1672 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1673 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1674 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1679 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1682 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1683 * README: mention doc/v2
1684 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1685 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1689 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1691 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1692 be using this script RSN.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1696 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1699 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1700 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1701 more than 1 init script.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1705 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1708 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1712 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Changed perl version detection.
1715 * Changed call to find.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1719 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1722 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1724 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1729 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Really include dh_installpam.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1735 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1738 * Wrote man page for same.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1742 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1745 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1746 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1751 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1758 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1761 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1762 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1763 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1764 x bit was being set!
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1768 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1771 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1772 well. (Closes: 38900)
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1776 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1779 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1780 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1784 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1790 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1797 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1803 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1806 help from Julian Gilbey.
1807 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1808 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1809 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1810 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1811 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1812 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1813 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1818 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1824 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1831 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1837 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1843 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1846 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1850 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1853 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1857 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1860 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1864 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1870 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1873 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1877 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1883 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1889 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1892 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1893 may be deleted. (#35845)
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1897 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Various man page enhancements.
1900 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1905 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1908 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1909 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1913 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1916 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1917 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1918 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1920 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1921 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1926 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1932 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Another very minor typo fix.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1938 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Very minor typo fix.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1944 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1947 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1948 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1952 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1958 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1961 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1962 variables properly (#34850).
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1966 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1972 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1975 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1976 (automatically generated by build process).
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1980 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1982 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1986 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1989 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1990 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1992 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1996 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1999 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2003 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * README: minor typo fix.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2009 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2012 leave it at that. :-)
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2016 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2022 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2028 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2031 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2032 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2033 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2037 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2040 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2044 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2047 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2051 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2054 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2055 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2056 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2057 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2061 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2064 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2065 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2066 Craig Small for spotting this.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2070 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2073 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2074 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2078 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2084 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2087 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2091 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2093 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2094 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2095 working on the last version of debhelper.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2099 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2102 being made. (#23255)
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2106 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2112 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2115 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2119 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2122 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2123 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2124 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2125 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2129 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2132 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2133 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2134 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2135 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2137 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2138 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2140 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2145 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2151 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2157 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2160 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2161 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2162 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2163 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2164 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2165 suidregister actually supports it.
2166 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2167 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2171 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2178 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2181 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2182 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2183 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2184 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2185 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2186 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2187 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2191 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2193 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2194 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2198 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2201 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2202 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2203 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2204 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2208 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2211 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2213 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2214 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2215 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2216 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2217 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2218 effect, either. (#30118)
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2222 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2228 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2231 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2232 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2236 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2242 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2245 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2246 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2247 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2248 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2252 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2255 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2256 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2260 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2266 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2269 packages, painlessly.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2273 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2279 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2285 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2291 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * The perl conversion is complete.
2295 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2297 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2298 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2299 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2304 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2307 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2308 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2309 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2313 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2316 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2318 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2320 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2321 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2325 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2328 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2329 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2333 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2339 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2342 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2343 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2344 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2345 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2346 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2350 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2353 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2354 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2355 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2356 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2360 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2363 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2367 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2370 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2371 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2372 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2373 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2374 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2375 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2376 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2377 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2381 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2387 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2390 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2391 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2392 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2397 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2400 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2404 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2407 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2411 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2414 sections of shared libraries.
2415 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2416 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2417 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2418 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2419 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2420 things you don't want them to.
2421 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2422 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2426 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2429 shared libraries. (#26414)
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2433 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2435 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2436 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2437 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2438 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2442 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2446 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2448 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2449 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2450 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2451 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2452 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2456 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2459 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2463 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2466 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2467 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2472 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2475 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2479 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2482 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2483 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2484 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2485 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2486 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2488 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2489 remove debian/files properly.
2490 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2491 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2492 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2493 * Removed bogus menu file.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2497 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2500 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2504 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2507 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2508 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2509 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2510 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2511 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2512 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2516 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2519 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2520 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2521 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2522 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2526 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2533 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2536 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2537 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2539 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2540 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2541 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2542 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2543 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2544 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2548 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2551 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2552 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2553 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2554 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2555 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2556 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2557 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2558 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2559 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2560 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2561 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2562 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2563 passed any switches.
2564 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2568 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2571 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2572 at all for a long while.
2573 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2574 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2575 large chunks in the process.
2576 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2577 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2578 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2583 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2586 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2588 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2593 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2596 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2597 that don't always have the same files in them.
2598 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2599 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2600 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2604 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2608 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2609 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2610 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2611 updating 27 man pages.
2612 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2613 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2614 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2615 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2616 programs act on. (#25247)
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2620 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2624 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2625 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2626 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2627 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2628 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2629 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2634 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2641 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2648 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2651 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2655 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2661 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2664 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2665 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2666 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2667 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2668 package by accident.
2669 * Is version 1.0 next?
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2673 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2676 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2677 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2681 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2684 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2685 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2686 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2687 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2688 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2690 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2695 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2698 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2699 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2703 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2706 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2710 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2713 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2714 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2719 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2725 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2728 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2729 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2734 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2740 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2743 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2744 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2745 past week. Thanks, guys!
2747 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2748 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2749 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2750 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2751 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2752 would do in the same situation.
2753 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2754 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2756 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2758 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2759 permissions changed.
2760 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2761 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2762 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2763 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2764 files are treated identically.
2765 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2766 * Minor man page fixes.
2767 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2768 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2769 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2773 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2776 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2777 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2778 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2779 use -X multiple times, too.
2780 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2781 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2785 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2788 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2789 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2793 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2796 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2800 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2803 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2804 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2805 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2806 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2807 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2808 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2809 shape if you're starting a new package.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2813 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2816 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2820 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2823 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2824 because of missing symlinks.
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2828 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2834 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2837 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2838 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2839 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2840 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2841 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2843 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2844 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2848 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2850 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2851 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2852 to be changed after the fact :-)
2853 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2857 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2860 no version string after the -V.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2864 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2866 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2867 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2872 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2875 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2879 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2882 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2883 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2884 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2885 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2886 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2887 I always welcome corrections!
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2891 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2897 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2900 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2901 * Documented this new switch.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2905 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2908 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2909 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2910 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2911 no packages use the old behavior.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2915 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2918 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2919 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2923 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2926 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2930 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2936 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2939 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2943 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2946 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2947 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2948 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2952 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2958 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2961 into the source package by accident.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2965 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2968 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2969 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2970 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2971 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2972 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2973 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2978 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2982 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2983 inspired to implement some of it.
2984 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2988 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2991 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2995 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2998 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2999 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3003 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3006 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3007 have done.) (#17598)
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3011 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3017 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3023 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3026 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3030 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3033 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3034 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3038 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3041 argument processor in perl.
3042 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3043 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3044 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3045 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3049 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3052 type directories. (#16933)
3053 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3054 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3055 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3056 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3057 are supported. (#16935)
3058 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3063 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3066 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3070 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3074 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3075 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3076 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3077 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3078 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3079 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3083 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3086 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3087 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3089 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3090 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3091 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3092 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3093 a given package, or -i or -a.
3094 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3095 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3096 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3097 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3098 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3099 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3100 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3101 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3102 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3104 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3105 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3106 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3110 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3113 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3114 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3119 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3122 does not have a section.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3126 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3129 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3130 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3131 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3135 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * Fixed typo #16215.
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3141 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3144 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3145 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3146 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3147 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3148 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3153 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3156 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3157 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3158 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3163 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3169 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3175 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3178 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3179 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3180 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3181 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3182 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3183 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3187 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3193 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3196 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3200 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3203 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3204 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3205 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3209 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3212 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3216 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3222 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3225 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3229 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3232 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3236 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3242 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3245 postinst, postrm, etc.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3249 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3255 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3258 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3259 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3260 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3261 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3262 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3266 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3269 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3270 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3274 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3277 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3281 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3284 installing package files into.
3285 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3290 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3294 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3298 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3304 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3307 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3311 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3314 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3315 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3316 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3317 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3321 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3323 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3324 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3325 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3326 multiple binary packages.
3327 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3328 should rebuild them with this version.
3329 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3333 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3336 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3340 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3343 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3347 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3350 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3351 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3352 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3353 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3354 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3355 debian/README.debian.
3356 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3357 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3358 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3359 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3360 in a few situations.)
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3364 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3370 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3376 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3379 * Fixed several man pages.
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3383 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3386 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3387 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3391 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3394 is ready for general use.
3395 * Added man pages for all commands.
3396 * Multiple binary package support.
3397 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3398 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3399 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3401 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3402 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3403 auto-installed as parameters.
3404 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3406 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3409 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3410 the package build directory it is to act on.
3411 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3412 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3413 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3417 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3419 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3420 ready to replace debstd.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400