1 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
4 look just like shared libs, but are not.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
8 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
15 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
18 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
19 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
20 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
21 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
22 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
23 program those options go to. So, for example,
24 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
25 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
26 something complex. Closes: #89311
27 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
31 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
34 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
35 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
36 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
40 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
43 through loop. Closes: #98598
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
47 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
51 this (dh_* should be called, really).
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
55 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
58 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
59 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
60 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
64 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
67 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
68 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
72 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
75 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
79 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
82 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
83 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
87 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
90 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
91 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
92 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
96 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
99 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
100 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
101 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
105 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
108 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
112 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
118 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Typo, Closes: #92407
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
124 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
130 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
136 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
139 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
143 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
146 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
147 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
148 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
149 followed. Closes: #85483
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
153 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
155 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
156 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
157 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
161 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
164 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
165 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
166 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
167 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
168 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
169 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
170 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
171 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
172 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
173 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
174 Closes: #88464, #77743
175 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
176 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
177 us to deal with that gracefully.
178 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
180 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
181 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
182 a while, Closes: #51225
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
186 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
192 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
195 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
199 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
201 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
203 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
208 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
211 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
212 don't make packlist files.
213 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
214 debhelper coding standards.
215 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
216 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
220 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
223 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
227 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
230 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
231 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
232 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
233 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
234 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
235 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
236 but is mildly deprecated.
237 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
238 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
239 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
240 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
241 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
242 switching to statoverrides..
243 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
244 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
245 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
246 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
247 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
248 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
250 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
251 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
252 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
253 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
254 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
255 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
256 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
257 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
258 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
260 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
261 variable names, pod man pages).
262 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
263 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
264 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
265 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
266 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
267 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
268 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
272 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
274 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
278 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
285 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
288 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
292 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
294 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
295 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
296 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
300 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
302 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
303 they were previously ignored.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
307 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
309 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
310 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
314 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
316 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
317 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
318 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
322 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
324 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
328 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
330 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
331 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
335 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
337 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
338 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
339 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
340 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
341 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
342 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
343 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
344 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
345 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
346 it is an obsolete program.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
350 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
352 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
356 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
360 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
362 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
366 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
368 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
370 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
372 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
376 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
382 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
384 * typo: Closes, #78567
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
388 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
394 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
400 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
402 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
403 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
404 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
405 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
406 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
407 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
411 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
414 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
419 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
422 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
423 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
424 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
425 backwards-compatability.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
429 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
431 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
432 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
433 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
434 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
435 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
436 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
437 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
439 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
440 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
441 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
443 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
445 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
446 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
447 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
448 should now be raised to severity important..
449 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
450 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
454 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
457 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
462 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Typo, Closes: #77441
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
468 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Completed the fix from the last version.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
474 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
480 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
482 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
487 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
490 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
491 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
492 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
493 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
497 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
503 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
506 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
507 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
508 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
509 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
510 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
511 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
516 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
519 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
523 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
529 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
532 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
537 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
540 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
541 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
542 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
543 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
547 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
551 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
554 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
557 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
558 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
561 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
563 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
564 the TODO entry about it.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
568 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
575 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
578 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
579 prevent that. Closes: #73052
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
583 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Typo, Closes: #72932
586 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
587 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
588 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
589 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
593 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
599 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
606 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
609 (this appears to be logal).
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
613 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
616 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
617 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
618 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
619 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
623 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
629 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
631 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
632 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
633 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
634 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
635 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
639 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
645 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
648 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
652 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
659 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
661 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
662 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
663 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
664 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
669 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
676 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
682 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
684 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
685 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
686 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
687 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
688 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
689 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
690 notice until v2 is complete.
691 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
692 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
693 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
694 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
695 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
696 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
698 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
699 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
700 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
701 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
705 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
711 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
718 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
721 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
725 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
732 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
735 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
736 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
737 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
738 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
743 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
746 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
747 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
748 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
753 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
756 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
757 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
761 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
764 just skip files that end in -\d+.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
768 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
771 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
775 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
782 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
784 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
785 depend on the build and install targets.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
789 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
792 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
796 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
803 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
809 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
811 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
815 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
818 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
819 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
820 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
821 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
822 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
823 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
825 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
826 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
827 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
828 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
829 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
830 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
831 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
835 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
841 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
847 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
850 right place. Closes: #55065
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
854 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
861 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Make all examples rules files executable.
864 * Copyright date updates.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
868 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
871 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
876 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
882 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
889 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
891 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
895 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
901 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
907 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
910 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
911 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
912 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
913 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
914 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
915 bits until all files have been registered.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
919 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_installmanpages:
922 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
923 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
924 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
925 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
926 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
927 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
928 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
929 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
930 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
931 otherwise change the result at all.
933 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
934 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
935 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
936 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
937 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
942 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
948 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
951 act on files that don't exist.
952 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
953 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
954 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
956 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
957 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
958 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
959 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
963 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
965 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
969 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
975 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
978 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
982 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
985 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
987 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
988 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
989 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
993 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
996 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
997 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
998 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
999 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1000 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1001 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1002 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1004 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1006 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1010 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1017 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1023 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1029 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1032 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1036 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1042 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1048 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1051 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1052 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1053 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1054 I made some changes, though:
1055 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1056 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1057 that is a clear violation of policy.
1058 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1059 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1060 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1061 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1062 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1063 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1064 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1065 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1066 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1068 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1072 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1078 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1081 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1085 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1088 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1089 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1094 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1100 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1107 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1110 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1111 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1112 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1113 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1114 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1115 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1116 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1120 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1126 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1130 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1131 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1135 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1141 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1144 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1148 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1151 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1152 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1156 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1158 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1163 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1167 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1171 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1174 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1175 for the dependancies to be generated.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1179 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1182 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1186 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1189 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1190 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1191 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1196 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1199 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1200 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1204 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1210 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1219 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1223 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1229 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1232 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1233 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1234 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1235 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1236 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1237 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1238 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1239 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1240 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1241 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1242 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1243 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1247 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1250 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1251 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1253 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1254 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1255 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1256 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1257 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1258 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1260 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1261 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1265 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1268 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1272 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1279 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1282 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1287 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1290 for building debhelper.
1291 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1295 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1302 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1305 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1309 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1312 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1313 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1314 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1315 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1316 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1317 it's always available.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1321 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1324 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1325 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1326 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1330 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1333 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1334 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1338 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1344 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1347 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1351 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1357 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1360 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1361 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1362 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1366 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1369 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1374 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1377 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1378 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1380 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1381 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1385 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1391 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1397 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1400 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1404 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1407 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1408 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1410 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1414 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1417 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1418 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1419 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1423 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1426 things if CDPATH is set.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1430 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1436 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1439 seems to make sense for the transition.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1443 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1446 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1451 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1454 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1455 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1459 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1462 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1466 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1469 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1470 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1471 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1472 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1476 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1482 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1485 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1486 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1487 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1488 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1489 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1490 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1491 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1492 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1493 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1494 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1499 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1502 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1503 * README: mention doc/v2
1504 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1505 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1509 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1511 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1512 be using this script RSN.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1516 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1519 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1520 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1521 more than 1 init script.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1525 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1528 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1532 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Changed perl version detection.
1535 * Changed call to find.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1539 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1542 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1544 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1549 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Really include dh_installpam.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1555 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1558 * Wrote man page for same.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1562 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1565 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1566 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1571 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1578 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1581 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1582 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1583 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1584 x bit was being set!
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1588 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1591 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1592 well. (Closes: 38900)
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1596 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1599 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1600 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1604 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1610 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1617 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1623 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1626 help from Julian Gilbey.
1627 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1628 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1629 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1630 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1631 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1632 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1633 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1638 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1644 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1651 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1657 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1663 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1666 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1670 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1673 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1677 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1680 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1684 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1690 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1693 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1697 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1703 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1709 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1712 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1713 may be deleted. (#35845)
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1717 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Various man page enhancements.
1720 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1725 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1728 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1729 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1733 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1736 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1737 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1738 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1740 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1741 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1746 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1752 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Another very minor typo fix.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1758 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Very minor typo fix.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1764 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1767 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1768 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1772 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1778 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1781 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1782 variables properly (#34850).
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1786 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1792 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1795 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1796 (automatically generated by build process).
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1800 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1802 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1806 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1809 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1810 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1812 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1816 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1819 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1823 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * README: minor typo fix.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1829 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1832 leave it at that. :-)
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1836 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1842 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1848 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1851 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1852 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1853 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1857 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1860 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1864 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1867 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1871 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1874 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1875 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1876 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1877 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1881 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1884 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1885 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1886 Craig Small for spotting this.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1890 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1893 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1894 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1898 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1904 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1907 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1911 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1913 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1914 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1915 working on the last version of debhelper.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1919 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1922 being made. (#23255)
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1926 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1932 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1935 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1939 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1942 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1943 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1944 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1945 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1949 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1952 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1953 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1954 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1955 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1957 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1958 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1960 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1965 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1971 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1977 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1980 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1981 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1982 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1983 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1984 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1985 suidregister actually supports it.
1986 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1987 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1991 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1998 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2001 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2002 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2003 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2004 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2005 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2006 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2007 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2011 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2013 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2014 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2018 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2021 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2022 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2023 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2024 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2028 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2031 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2033 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2034 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2035 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2036 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2037 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2038 effect, either. (#30118)
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2042 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2048 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2051 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2052 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2056 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2062 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2065 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2066 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2067 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2068 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2072 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2075 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2076 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2080 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2086 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2089 packages, painlessly.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2093 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2099 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2105 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2111 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * The perl conversion is complete.
2115 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2117 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2118 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2119 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2124 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2127 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2128 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2129 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2133 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2136 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2138 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2140 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2141 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2145 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2148 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2149 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2153 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2159 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2162 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2163 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2164 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2165 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2166 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2170 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2173 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2174 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2175 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2176 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2180 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2183 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2187 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2190 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2191 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2192 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2193 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2194 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2195 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2196 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2197 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2201 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2207 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2210 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2211 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2212 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2217 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2220 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2224 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2227 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2231 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2234 sections of shared libraries.
2235 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2236 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2237 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2238 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2239 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2240 things you don't want them to.
2241 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2242 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2246 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2249 shared libraries. (#26414)
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2253 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2255 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2256 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2257 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2258 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2262 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2266 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2268 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2269 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2270 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2271 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2272 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2276 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2279 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2283 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2286 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2287 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2292 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2295 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2299 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2302 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2303 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2304 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2305 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2306 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2308 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2309 remove debian/files properly.
2310 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2311 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2312 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2313 * Removed bogus menu file.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2317 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2320 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2324 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2327 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2328 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2329 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2330 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2331 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2332 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2336 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2339 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2340 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2341 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2342 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2346 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2353 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2356 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2357 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2359 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2360 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2361 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2362 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2363 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2364 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2368 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2371 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2372 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2373 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2374 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2375 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2376 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2377 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2378 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2379 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2380 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2381 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2382 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2383 passed any switches.
2384 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2388 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2391 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2392 at all for a long while.
2393 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2394 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2395 large chunks in the process.
2396 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2397 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2398 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2403 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2406 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2408 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2413 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2416 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2417 that don't always have the same files in them.
2418 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2419 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2420 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2424 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2428 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2429 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2430 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2431 updating 27 man pages.
2432 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2433 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2434 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2435 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2436 programs act on. (#25247)
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2440 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2444 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2445 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2446 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2447 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2448 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2449 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2454 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2461 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2468 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2471 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2475 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2481 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2484 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2485 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2486 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2487 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2488 package by accident.
2489 * Is version 1.0 next?
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2493 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2496 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2497 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2501 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2504 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2505 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2506 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2507 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2508 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2510 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2515 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2518 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2519 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2523 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2526 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2530 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2533 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2534 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2539 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2545 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2548 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2549 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2554 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2560 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2563 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2564 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2565 past week. Thanks, guys!
2567 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2568 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2569 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2570 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2571 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2572 would do in the same situation.
2573 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2574 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2576 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2578 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2579 permissions changed.
2580 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2581 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2582 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2583 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2584 files are treated identically.
2585 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2586 * Minor man page fixes.
2587 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2588 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2589 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2593 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2596 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2597 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2598 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2599 use -X multiple times, too.
2600 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2601 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2605 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2608 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2609 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2613 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2616 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2620 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2623 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2624 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2625 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2626 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2627 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2628 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2629 shape if you're starting a new package.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2633 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2636 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2640 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2643 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2644 because of missing symlinks.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2648 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2654 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2657 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2658 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2659 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2660 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2661 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2663 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2664 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2668 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2670 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2671 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2672 to be changed after the fact :-)
2673 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2677 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2680 no version string after the -V.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2684 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2686 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2687 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2692 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2695 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2699 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2702 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2703 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2704 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2705 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2706 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2707 I always welcome corrections!
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2711 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2717 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2720 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2721 * Documented this new switch.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2725 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2728 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2729 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2730 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2731 no packages use the old behavior.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2735 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2738 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2739 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2743 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2746 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2750 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2756 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2759 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2763 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2766 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2767 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2768 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2772 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2778 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2781 into the source package by accident.
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2785 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2788 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2789 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2790 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2791 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2792 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2793 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2798 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2802 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2803 inspired to implement some of it.
2804 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2808 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2811 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2815 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2818 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2819 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2823 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2826 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2827 have done.) (#17598)
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2831 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2837 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2843 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2846 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2850 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2853 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2854 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2858 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2861 argument processor in perl.
2862 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2863 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2864 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2865 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2869 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2872 type directories. (#16933)
2873 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2874 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2875 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2876 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2877 are supported. (#16935)
2878 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2883 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2886 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2890 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2894 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2895 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2896 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2897 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2898 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2899 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2903 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2906 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2907 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2909 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2910 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2911 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2912 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2913 a given package, or -i or -a.
2914 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2915 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2916 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2917 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2918 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2919 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2920 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2921 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2922 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2924 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2925 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2926 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2930 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2933 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2934 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2939 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2942 does not have a section.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2946 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2949 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2950 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2951 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2955 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Fixed typo #16215.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2961 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2964 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2965 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2966 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2967 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2968 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2973 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2976 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2977 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2978 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2983 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2989 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2995 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2998 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2999 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3000 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3001 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3002 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3003 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3007 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3013 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3016 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3020 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3023 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3024 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3025 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3029 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3032 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3036 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3042 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3045 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3049 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3052 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3056 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3062 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3065 postinst, postrm, etc.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3069 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3075 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3078 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3079 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3080 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3081 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3082 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3086 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3089 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3090 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3094 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3097 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3101 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3104 installing package files into.
3105 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3110 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3114 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3118 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3124 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3127 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3131 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3134 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3135 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3136 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3137 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3141 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3143 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3144 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3145 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3146 multiple binary packages.
3147 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3148 should rebuild them with this version.
3149 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3153 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3156 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3160 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3163 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3167 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3170 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3171 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3172 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3173 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3174 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3175 debian/README.debian.
3176 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3177 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3178 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3179 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3180 in a few situations.)
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3184 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3190 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3196 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3199 * Fixed several man pages.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3203 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3206 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3207 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3211 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3214 is ready for general use.
3215 * Added man pages for all commands.
3216 * Multiple binary package support.
3217 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3218 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3219 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3221 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3222 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3223 auto-installed as parameters.
3224 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3226 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3229 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3230 the package build directory it is to act on.
3231 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3232 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3233 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3237 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3239 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3240 ready to replace debstd.
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400