1 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
5 Also some indentation fixes.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
9 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
12 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
13 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
14 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
15 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
16 Closes: #106514, #85520
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
20 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Typo, Closes: #104405
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
26 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
32 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
34 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
38 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
44 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
50 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
53 change it in debhelper v4..
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
57 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
63 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
66 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
70 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
73 is not essential. Closes: #100430
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
77 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
83 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
86 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
87 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
88 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
89 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
90 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
91 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
92 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
93 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
94 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
95 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
96 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
97 prefixed with ".debhelper")
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
101 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
104 look just like shared libs, but are not.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
108 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
115 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
118 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
119 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
120 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
121 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
122 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
123 program those options go to. So, for example,
124 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
125 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
126 something complex. Closes: #89311
127 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
131 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
134 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
135 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
136 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
140 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
143 through loop. Closes: #98598
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
147 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Missing semi-colon.
150 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
151 this (dh_* should be called, really).
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
155 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
158 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
159 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
160 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
164 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
167 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
168 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
172 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
175 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
179 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
182 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
183 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
187 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
190 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
191 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
192 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
196 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
199 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
200 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
201 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
205 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
208 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
212 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
218 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Typo, Closes: #92407
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
224 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
230 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
236 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
238 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
239 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
243 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
246 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
247 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
248 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
249 followed. Closes: #85483
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
253 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
255 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
256 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
257 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
261 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
264 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
265 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
266 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
267 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
268 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
269 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
270 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
271 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
272 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
273 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
274 Closes: #88464, #77743
275 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
276 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
277 us to deal with that gracefully.
278 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
280 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
281 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
282 a while, Closes: #51225
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
286 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
292 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
295 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
299 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
303 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
308 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
311 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
312 don't make packlist files.
313 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
314 debhelper coding standards.
315 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
316 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
320 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
323 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
327 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
330 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
331 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
332 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
333 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
334 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
335 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
336 but is mildly deprecated.
337 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
338 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
339 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
340 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
341 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
342 switching to statoverrides..
343 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
344 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
345 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
346 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
347 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
348 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
350 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
351 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
352 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
353 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
354 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
355 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
356 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
357 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
358 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
360 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
361 variable names, pod man pages).
362 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
363 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
364 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
365 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
366 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
367 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
368 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
372 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
378 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
385 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
388 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
392 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
394 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
395 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
396 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
400 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
402 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
403 they were previously ignored.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
407 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
409 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
410 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
414 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
416 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
417 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
418 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
422 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
424 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
428 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
430 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
431 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
435 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
437 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
438 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
439 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
440 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
441 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
442 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
443 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
444 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
445 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
446 it is an obsolete program.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
450 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
452 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
456 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
460 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
462 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
466 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
468 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
470 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
472 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
476 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
482 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
484 * typo: Closes, #78567
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
488 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
494 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
500 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
502 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
503 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
504 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
505 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
506 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
507 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
511 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
514 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
519 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
522 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
523 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
524 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
525 backwards-compatability.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
529 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
531 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
532 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
533 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
534 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
535 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
536 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
537 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
539 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
540 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
541 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
543 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
545 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
546 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
547 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
548 should now be raised to severity important..
549 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
550 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
554 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
557 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
562 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Typo, Closes: #77441
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
568 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Completed the fix from the last version.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
574 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
576 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
580 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
582 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
587 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
590 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
591 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
592 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
593 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
597 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
603 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
606 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
607 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
608 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
609 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
610 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
611 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
616 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
619 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
623 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
629 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
632 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
637 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
640 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
641 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
642 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
643 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
647 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
651 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
654 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
657 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
658 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
661 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
663 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
664 the TODO entry about it.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
668 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
675 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
678 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
679 prevent that. Closes: #73052
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
683 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Typo, Closes: #72932
686 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
687 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
688 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
689 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
693 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
699 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
706 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
709 (this appears to be logal).
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
713 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
716 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
717 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
718 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
719 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
723 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
729 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
731 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
732 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
733 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
734 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
735 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
739 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
745 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
748 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
752 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
759 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
762 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
763 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
764 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
769 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
776 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
782 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
784 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
785 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
786 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
787 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
788 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
789 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
790 notice until v2 is complete.
791 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
792 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
793 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
794 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
795 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
796 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
798 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
799 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
800 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
801 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
805 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
807 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
811 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
818 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
821 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
825 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
832 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
835 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
836 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
837 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
838 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
843 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
846 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
847 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
848 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
853 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
856 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
857 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
861 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
864 just skip files that end in -\d+.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
868 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
871 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
875 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
882 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
884 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
885 depend on the build and install targets.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
889 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
891 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
892 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
896 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
903 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
909 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
915 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
918 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
919 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
920 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
921 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
922 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
923 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
925 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
926 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
927 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
928 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
929 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
930 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
931 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
935 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
941 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
947 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
950 right place. Closes: #55065
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
954 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
961 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Make all examples rules files executable.
964 * Copyright date updates.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
968 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
971 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
976 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
982 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
989 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
995 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1001 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1007 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1010 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1011 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1012 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1013 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1014 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1015 bits until all files have been registered.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1019 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_installmanpages:
1022 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1023 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1024 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1025 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1026 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1027 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1028 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1029 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1030 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1031 otherwise change the result at all.
1033 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1034 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1035 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1036 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1037 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1042 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1048 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1051 act on files that don't exist.
1052 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1053 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1054 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1056 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1057 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1058 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1059 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1063 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1069 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1075 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1078 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1082 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1085 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1087 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1088 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1089 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1093 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1096 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1097 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1098 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1099 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1100 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1101 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1102 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1104 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1106 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1110 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1117 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1123 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1129 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1132 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1136 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1142 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1148 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1151 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1152 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1153 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1154 I made some changes, though:
1155 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1156 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1157 that is a clear violation of policy.
1158 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1159 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1160 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1161 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1162 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1163 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1164 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1165 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1166 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1168 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1172 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1178 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1181 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1185 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1188 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1189 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1194 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1200 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1207 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1210 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1211 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1212 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1213 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1214 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1215 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1216 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1220 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1226 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1230 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1231 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1235 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1241 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1244 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1248 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1251 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1252 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1256 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1258 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1263 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1267 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1271 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1274 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1275 for the dependancies to be generated.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1279 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1282 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1286 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1289 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1290 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1291 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1296 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1299 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1300 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1304 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1310 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1319 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1323 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1329 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1332 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1333 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1334 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1335 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1336 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1337 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1338 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1339 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1340 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1341 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1342 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1343 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1347 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1350 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1351 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1353 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1354 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1355 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1356 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1357 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1358 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1360 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1361 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1365 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1368 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1372 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1379 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1382 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1387 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1390 for building debhelper.
1391 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1395 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1402 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1405 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1409 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1412 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1413 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1414 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1415 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1416 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1417 it's always available.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1421 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1424 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1425 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1426 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1430 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1433 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1434 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1438 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1444 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1447 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1451 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1457 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1460 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1461 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1462 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1466 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1469 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1474 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1477 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1478 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1480 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1481 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1485 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1491 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1500 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1507 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1508 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1510 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1514 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1517 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1518 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1519 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1523 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1526 things if CDPATH is set.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1530 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1536 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1539 seems to make sense for the transition.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1543 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1546 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1551 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1554 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1555 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1559 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1562 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1566 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1569 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1570 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1571 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1572 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1576 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1582 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1585 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1586 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1587 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1588 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1589 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1590 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1591 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1592 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1593 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1594 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1599 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1602 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1603 * README: mention doc/v2
1604 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1605 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1609 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1611 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1612 be using this script RSN.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1616 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1619 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1620 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1621 more than 1 init script.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1625 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1628 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1632 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * Changed perl version detection.
1635 * Changed call to find.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1639 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1642 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1644 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1649 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Really include dh_installpam.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1655 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1658 * Wrote man page for same.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1662 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1665 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1666 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1671 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1678 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1681 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1682 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1683 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1684 x bit was being set!
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1688 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1691 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1692 well. (Closes: 38900)
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1696 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1699 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1700 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1704 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1710 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1717 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1723 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1726 help from Julian Gilbey.
1727 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1728 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1729 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1730 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1731 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1732 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1733 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1738 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1744 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1751 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1757 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1763 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1766 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1770 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1773 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1777 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1780 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1784 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1790 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1793 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1797 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1803 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1809 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1812 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1813 may be deleted. (#35845)
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1817 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Various man page enhancements.
1820 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1825 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1828 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1829 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1833 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1836 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1837 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1838 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1840 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1841 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1846 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1852 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Another very minor typo fix.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1858 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Very minor typo fix.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1864 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1867 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1868 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1872 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1878 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1881 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1882 variables properly (#34850).
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1886 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1892 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1895 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1896 (automatically generated by build process).
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1900 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1902 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1906 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1909 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1910 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1912 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1916 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1919 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1923 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * README: minor typo fix.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1929 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1932 leave it at that. :-)
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1936 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1942 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1948 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1951 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1952 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1953 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1957 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1960 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1964 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1967 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1971 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1974 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1975 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1976 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1977 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1981 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1984 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1985 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1986 Craig Small for spotting this.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1990 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1993 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1994 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1998 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2004 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2007 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2011 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2013 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2014 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2015 working on the last version of debhelper.
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2019 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2022 being made. (#23255)
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2026 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2032 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2035 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2039 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2042 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2043 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2044 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2045 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2049 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2052 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2053 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2054 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2055 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2057 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2058 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2060 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2065 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2071 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2077 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2080 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2081 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2082 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2083 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2084 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2085 suidregister actually supports it.
2086 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2087 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2091 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2098 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2101 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2102 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2103 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2104 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2105 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2106 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2107 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2111 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2113 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2114 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2118 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2121 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2122 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2123 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2124 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2128 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2131 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2133 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2134 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2135 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2136 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2137 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2138 effect, either. (#30118)
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2142 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2148 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2151 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2152 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2156 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2162 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2165 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2166 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2167 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2168 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2172 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2175 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2176 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2180 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2186 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2189 packages, painlessly.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2193 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2199 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2205 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2211 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * The perl conversion is complete.
2215 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2217 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2218 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2219 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2224 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2227 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2228 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2229 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2233 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2236 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2238 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2240 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2241 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2245 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2248 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2249 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2253 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2259 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2262 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2263 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2264 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2265 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2266 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2270 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2273 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2274 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2275 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2276 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2280 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2283 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2287 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2290 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2291 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2292 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2293 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2294 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2295 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2296 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2297 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2301 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2307 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2310 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2311 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2312 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2317 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2320 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2324 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2327 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2331 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2334 sections of shared libraries.
2335 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2336 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2337 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2338 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2339 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2340 things you don't want them to.
2341 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2342 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2346 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2349 shared libraries. (#26414)
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2353 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2355 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2356 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2357 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2358 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2362 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2366 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2368 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2369 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2370 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2371 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2372 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2376 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2379 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2383 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2386 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2387 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2392 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2395 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2399 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2402 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2403 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2404 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2405 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2406 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2408 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2409 remove debian/files properly.
2410 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2411 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2412 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2413 * Removed bogus menu file.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2417 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2420 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2424 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2427 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2428 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2429 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2430 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2431 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2432 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2436 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2439 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2440 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2441 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2442 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2446 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2453 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2456 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2457 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2459 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2460 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2461 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2462 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2463 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2464 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2468 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2471 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2472 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2473 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2474 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2475 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2476 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2477 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2478 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2479 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2480 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2481 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2482 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2483 passed any switches.
2484 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2488 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2491 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2492 at all for a long while.
2493 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2494 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2495 large chunks in the process.
2496 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2497 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2498 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2503 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2506 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2508 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2513 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2516 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2517 that don't always have the same files in them.
2518 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2519 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2520 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2524 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2528 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2529 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2530 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2531 updating 27 man pages.
2532 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2533 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2534 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2535 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2536 programs act on. (#25247)
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2540 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2544 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2545 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2546 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2547 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2548 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2549 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2554 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2561 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2568 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2571 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2575 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2581 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2584 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2585 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2586 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2587 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2588 package by accident.
2589 * Is version 1.0 next?
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2593 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2596 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2597 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2601 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2604 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2605 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2606 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2607 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2608 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2610 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2615 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2618 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2619 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2623 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2626 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2630 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2633 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2634 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2639 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2645 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2648 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2649 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2654 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2660 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2663 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2664 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2665 past week. Thanks, guys!
2667 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2668 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2669 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2670 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2671 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2672 would do in the same situation.
2673 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2674 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2676 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2678 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2679 permissions changed.
2680 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2681 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2682 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2683 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2684 files are treated identically.
2685 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2686 * Minor man page fixes.
2687 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2688 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2689 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2693 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2696 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2697 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2698 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2699 use -X multiple times, too.
2700 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2701 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2705 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2708 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2709 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2713 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2716 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2720 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2723 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2724 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2725 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2726 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2727 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2728 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2729 shape if you're starting a new package.
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2733 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2736 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2740 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2743 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2744 because of missing symlinks.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2748 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2754 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2757 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2758 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2759 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2760 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2761 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2763 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2764 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2768 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2770 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2771 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2772 to be changed after the fact :-)
2773 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2777 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2780 no version string after the -V.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2784 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2786 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2787 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2792 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2795 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2799 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2802 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2803 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2804 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2805 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2806 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2807 I always welcome corrections!
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2811 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2817 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2820 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2821 * Documented this new switch.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2825 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2828 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2829 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2830 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2831 no packages use the old behavior.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2835 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2838 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2839 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2843 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2846 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2850 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2856 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2859 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2863 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2866 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2867 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2868 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2872 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2878 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2881 into the source package by accident.
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2885 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2888 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2889 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2890 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2891 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2892 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2893 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2898 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2902 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2903 inspired to implement some of it.
2904 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2908 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2911 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2915 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2918 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2919 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2923 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2926 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2927 have done.) (#17598)
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2931 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2937 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2943 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2946 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2950 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2953 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2954 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2958 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2961 argument processor in perl.
2962 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2963 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2964 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2965 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2969 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2972 type directories. (#16933)
2973 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2974 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2975 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2976 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2977 are supported. (#16935)
2978 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2983 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2986 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2990 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2994 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2995 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2996 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2997 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2998 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2999 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3003 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3006 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3007 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3009 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3010 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3011 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3012 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3013 a given package, or -i or -a.
3014 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3015 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3016 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3017 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3018 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3019 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3020 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3021 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3022 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3024 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3025 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3026 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3030 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3033 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3034 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3039 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3042 does not have a section.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3046 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3049 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3050 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3051 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3055 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Fixed typo #16215.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3061 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3064 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3065 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3066 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3067 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3068 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3073 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3076 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3077 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3078 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3083 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3089 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3095 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3098 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3099 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3100 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3101 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3102 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3103 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3107 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3113 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3116 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3120 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3123 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3124 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3125 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3129 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3132 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3136 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3142 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3145 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3149 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3152 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3156 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3162 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3165 postinst, postrm, etc.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3169 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3175 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3178 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3179 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3180 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3181 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3182 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3186 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3189 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3190 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3194 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3197 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3201 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3204 installing package files into.
3205 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3210 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3214 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3218 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3224 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3227 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3231 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3234 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3235 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3236 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3237 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3241 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3243 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3244 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3245 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3246 multiple binary packages.
3247 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3248 should rebuild them with this version.
3249 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3253 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3256 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3260 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3263 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3267 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3270 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3271 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3272 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3273 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3274 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3275 debian/README.debian.
3276 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3277 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3278 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3279 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3280 in a few situations.)
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3284 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3290 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3296 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3299 * Fixed several man pages.
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3303 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3306 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3307 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3311 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3314 is ready for general use.
3315 * Added man pages for all commands.
3316 * Multiple binary package support.
3317 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3318 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3319 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3321 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3322 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3323 auto-installed as parameters.
3324 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3326 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3329 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3330 the package build directory it is to act on.
3331 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3332 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3333 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3337 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3339 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3340 ready to replace debstd.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400