1 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
7 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Typo, Closes: #203907
10 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
11 removal. Closes: #204286
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
15 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
18 renaming. Closes: #203548
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
22 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
25 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
26 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
30 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
36 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
42 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
48 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
51 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
52 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
53 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
57 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
60 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
61 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
65 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
71 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
78 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
81 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
86 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
89 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
93 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
96 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
98 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
99 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
103 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
106 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
111 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
114 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
118 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
120 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
124 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
126 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
130 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
133 it break hard links (see #188663).
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
137 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
140 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
144 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
150 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
154 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
155 debconf-mergetemplates
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
159 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
162 pod2man. Closes: #184013
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
166 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
169 * Typo, Closes: #183267
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
173 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
176 * Update debhelper(1).
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
180 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
182 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
183 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
184 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
185 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
186 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
187 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
191 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
194 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
195 the shell. Closes: #178524
196 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
200 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
203 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
207 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
210 undocumented.7 links anymore.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
214 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
216 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
217 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
218 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
219 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
220 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
225 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
228 files from installation.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
232 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
235 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
236 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
240 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
243 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
247 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
250 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
254 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
260 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
266 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
270 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
271 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
273 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
277 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
280 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
281 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
282 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
283 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
287 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
289 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
290 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
294 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
297 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
298 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
302 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
306 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
311 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
317 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
321 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
322 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
323 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
328 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
331 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
332 practice. Closes: #163303
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
336 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
342 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
349 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
351 * The "reverse hangover" release.
352 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
354 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
355 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
356 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
357 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
358 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
362 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
365 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
370 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
376 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
383 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
386 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
391 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
397 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
403 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
409 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
416 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
419 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
420 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
421 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
422 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
427 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Typo, Closes: #155323
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
433 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
440 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
443 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
444 * Removed dh_installxaw.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
448 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
451 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
452 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
453 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
454 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
455 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
459 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
462 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
464 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
469 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
471 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
472 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
476 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
479 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
480 right thing. Closes: #150644
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
484 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
491 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
493 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
498 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
501 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
502 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
507 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
513 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
516 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
520 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
523 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
524 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
529 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
532 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
536 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
542 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
545 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
546 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
550 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
556 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Removing perl warning message.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
562 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
565 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
566 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
567 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
568 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
569 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
570 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
571 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
572 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
576 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
582 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
589 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
592 debconf-mergetemplate.
593 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
594 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
598 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
601 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
602 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
603 dh_install, which ...
604 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
605 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
606 mess, as it uses debian/install.
607 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
608 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
609 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
610 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
611 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
612 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
613 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
614 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
615 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
616 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
617 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
619 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
620 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
621 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
622 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
623 course there's -X ..)
624 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
625 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
626 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
628 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
629 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
630 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
631 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
632 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
637 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
643 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Typo, Closes: #139176
646 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
650 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
656 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
662 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
668 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
674 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
677 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
678 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
679 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
680 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
682 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
683 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
687 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
693 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Typo, Closes: #132454
696 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
700 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
703 upset. Closes: #131322
705 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
707 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
710 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
711 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
712 line, as well as in debian/rules.
713 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
714 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
715 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
716 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
717 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
718 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
719 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
720 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
721 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
722 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
723 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
724 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
726 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
730 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
733 - Better indenting of generated code.
734 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
738 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
742 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
743 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
744 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
745 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
746 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
747 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
748 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
752 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
755 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
759 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
762 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
763 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
764 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
765 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
766 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
767 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
768 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
769 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
770 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
771 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
772 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
773 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
774 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
775 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
776 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
781 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
787 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
790 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
791 * fixed dh_testdir man page
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
795 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Typo, Closes: #122679
798 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
799 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
803 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
809 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
812 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
813 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
814 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
815 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
816 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
821 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
823 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
827 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
830 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
834 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
837 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
842 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
844 * Typo, Closes: #114135
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
848 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
851 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
855 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
861 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
865 Also some indentation fixes.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
869 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
872 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
873 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
874 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
875 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
876 Closes: #106514, #85520
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
880 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Typo, Closes: #104405
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
886 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
892 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
894 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
898 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
904 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
910 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
913 change it in debhelper v4..
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
917 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
923 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
926 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
930 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
933 is not essential. Closes: #100430
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
937 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
943 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
946 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
947 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
948 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
949 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
950 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
951 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
952 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
953 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
954 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
955 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
956 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
957 prefixed with ".debhelper")
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
961 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
964 look just like shared libs, but are not.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
968 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
975 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
978 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
979 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
980 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
981 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
982 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
983 program those options go to. So, for example,
984 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
985 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
986 something complex. Closes: #89311
987 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
991 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
994 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
995 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
996 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1000 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1003 through loop. Closes: #98598
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1007 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Missing semi-colon.
1010 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1011 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1015 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1018 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1019 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1020 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1024 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1027 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1028 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1032 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1035 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1039 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1042 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1043 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1047 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1050 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1051 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1052 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1056 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1059 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1060 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1061 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1065 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1068 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1072 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1078 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1084 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1090 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1096 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1099 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1103 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1106 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1107 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1108 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1109 followed. Closes: #85483
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1113 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1115 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1116 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1117 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1121 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1124 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1125 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1126 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1127 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1128 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1129 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1130 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1131 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1132 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1133 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1134 Closes: #88464, #77743
1135 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1136 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1137 us to deal with that gracefully.
1138 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1140 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1141 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1142 a while, Closes: #51225
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1146 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1152 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1155 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1159 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1163 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1168 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1171 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1172 don't make packlist files.
1173 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1174 debhelper coding standards.
1175 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1176 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1180 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1183 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1187 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1190 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1191 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1192 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1193 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1194 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1195 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1196 but is mildly deprecated.
1197 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1198 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1199 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1200 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1201 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1202 switching to statoverrides..
1203 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1204 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1205 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1206 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1207 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1208 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1210 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1211 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1212 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1213 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1214 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1215 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1216 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1217 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1218 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1220 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1221 variable names, pod man pages).
1222 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1223 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1224 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1225 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1226 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1227 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1228 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1232 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1238 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1245 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1248 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1252 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1254 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1255 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1256 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1260 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1262 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1263 they were previously ignored.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1267 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1269 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1270 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1274 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1276 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1277 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1278 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1282 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1284 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1288 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1290 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1291 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1295 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1297 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1298 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1299 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1300 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1301 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1302 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1303 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1304 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1305 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1306 it is an obsolete program.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1310 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1312 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1316 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1320 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1322 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1326 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1328 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1330 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1332 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1336 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1342 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * typo: Closes, #78567
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1348 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1354 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1360 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1363 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1364 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1365 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1366 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1367 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1371 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1374 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1379 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1382 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1383 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1384 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1385 backwards-compatability.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1389 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1392 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1393 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1394 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1395 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1396 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1397 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1399 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1400 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1401 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1403 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1405 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1406 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1407 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1408 should now be raised to severity important..
1409 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1410 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1414 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1417 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1422 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1428 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1434 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1440 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1447 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1450 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1451 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1452 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1453 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1457 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1463 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1466 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1467 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1468 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1469 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1470 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1471 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1476 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1479 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1483 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1489 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1492 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1500 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1501 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1502 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1503 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1507 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1511 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1514 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1517 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1518 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1521 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1523 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1524 the TODO entry about it.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1528 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1535 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1538 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1539 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1543 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1546 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1547 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1548 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1549 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1553 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1559 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1566 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1569 (this appears to be logal).
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1573 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1576 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1577 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1578 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1579 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1583 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1589 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1592 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1593 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1594 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1595 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1599 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1605 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1608 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1612 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1619 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1622 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1623 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1624 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1629 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1636 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1642 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1645 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1646 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1647 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1648 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1649 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1650 notice until v2 is complete.
1651 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1652 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1653 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1654 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1655 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1656 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1658 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1659 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1660 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1661 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1665 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1671 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1678 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1681 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1685 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1692 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1695 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1696 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1697 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1698 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1703 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1706 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1707 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1708 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1713 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1716 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1717 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1721 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1724 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1728 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1731 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1735 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1742 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1745 depend on the build and install targets.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1749 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1752 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1756 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1763 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1769 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1775 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1778 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1779 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1780 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1781 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1782 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1783 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1785 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1786 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1787 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1788 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1789 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1790 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1791 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1795 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1801 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1807 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1810 right place. Closes: #55065
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1814 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1821 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1824 * Copyright date updates.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1828 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1831 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1836 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1842 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1849 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1855 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1861 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1867 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1870 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1871 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1872 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1873 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1874 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1875 bits until all files have been registered.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1879 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_installmanpages:
1882 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1883 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1884 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1885 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1886 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1887 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1888 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1889 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1890 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1891 otherwise change the result at all.
1893 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1894 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1895 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1896 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1897 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1902 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1908 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1911 act on files that don't exist.
1912 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1913 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1914 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1916 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1917 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1918 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1919 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1923 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1929 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1935 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1938 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1942 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1945 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1947 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1948 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1949 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1953 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1956 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1957 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1958 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1959 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1960 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1961 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1962 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1964 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1966 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1970 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1977 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1983 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1989 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1992 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1996 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2002 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2008 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2011 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2012 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2013 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2014 I made some changes, though:
2015 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2016 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2017 that is a clear violation of policy.
2018 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2019 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2020 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2021 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2022 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2023 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2024 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2025 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2026 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2028 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2032 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2038 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2041 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2045 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2048 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2049 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2054 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2060 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2067 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2070 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2071 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2072 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2073 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2074 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2075 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2076 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2080 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2086 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2090 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2091 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2095 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2101 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2104 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2108 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2111 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2112 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2116 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2118 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2123 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2127 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2131 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2134 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2135 for the dependancies to be generated.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2139 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2142 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2146 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2149 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2150 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2151 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2156 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2159 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2160 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2164 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2170 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2176 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2179 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2183 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2189 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2192 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2193 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2194 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2195 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2196 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2197 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2198 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2199 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2200 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2201 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2202 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2203 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2207 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2210 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2211 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2213 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2214 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2215 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2216 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2217 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2218 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2220 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2221 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2225 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2228 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2232 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2239 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2242 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2247 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2250 for building debhelper.
2251 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2255 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2262 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2265 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2269 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2272 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2273 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2274 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2275 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2276 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2277 it's always available.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2281 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2284 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2285 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2286 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2290 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2293 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2294 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2298 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2304 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2307 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2311 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2317 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2320 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2321 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2322 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2326 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2329 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2334 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2337 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2338 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2340 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2341 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2345 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2351 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2357 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2360 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2364 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2367 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2368 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2370 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2374 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2377 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2378 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2379 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2383 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2386 things if CDPATH is set.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2390 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2396 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2399 seems to make sense for the transition.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2403 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2406 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2411 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2414 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2415 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2419 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2422 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2426 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2429 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2430 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2431 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2432 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2436 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2442 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2445 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2446 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2447 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2448 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2449 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2450 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2451 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2452 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2453 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2454 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2459 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2462 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2463 * README: mention doc/v2
2464 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2465 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2469 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2471 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2472 be using this script RSN.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2476 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2479 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2480 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2481 more than 1 init script.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2485 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2488 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2492 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Changed perl version detection.
2495 * Changed call to find.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2499 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2502 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2504 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2509 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Really include dh_installpam.
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2515 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2518 * Wrote man page for same.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2522 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2525 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2526 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2531 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2538 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2541 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2542 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2543 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2544 x bit was being set!
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2548 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2551 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2552 well. (Closes: 38900)
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2556 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2559 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2560 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2564 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2570 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2577 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2583 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2586 help from Julian Gilbey.
2587 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2588 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2589 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2590 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2591 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2592 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2593 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2598 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2604 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2611 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2617 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2623 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2626 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2630 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2633 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2637 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2640 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2644 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2650 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2653 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2657 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2663 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2669 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2672 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2673 may be deleted. (#35845)
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2677 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Various man page enhancements.
2680 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2685 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2688 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2689 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2693 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2696 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2697 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2698 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2700 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2701 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2706 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2712 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * Another very minor typo fix.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2718 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Very minor typo fix.
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2724 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2727 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2728 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2732 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2738 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2741 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2742 variables properly (#34850).
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2746 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2752 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2755 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2756 (automatically generated by build process).
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2760 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2762 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2766 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2769 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2770 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2772 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2776 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2779 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2783 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * README: minor typo fix.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2789 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2792 leave it at that. :-)
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2796 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2802 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2808 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2811 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2812 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2813 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2817 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2820 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2824 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2827 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2831 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2834 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2835 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2836 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2837 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2841 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2844 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2845 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2846 Craig Small for spotting this.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2850 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2853 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2854 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2858 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2864 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2867 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2871 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2873 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2874 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2875 working on the last version of debhelper.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2879 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2882 being made. (#23255)
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2886 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2892 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2895 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2899 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2902 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2903 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2904 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2905 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2909 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2912 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2913 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2914 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2915 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2917 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2918 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2920 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2925 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2931 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2937 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2940 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2941 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2942 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2943 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2944 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2945 suidregister actually supports it.
2946 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2947 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2951 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2958 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2961 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2962 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2963 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2964 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2965 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2966 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2967 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2971 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2973 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2974 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2978 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2981 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2982 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2983 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2984 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2988 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2991 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2993 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2994 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2995 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2996 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2997 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2998 effect, either. (#30118)
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3002 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3008 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3011 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3012 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3016 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3022 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3025 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3026 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3027 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3028 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3032 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3035 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3036 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3040 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3046 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3049 packages, painlessly.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3053 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3059 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3065 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3071 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * The perl conversion is complete.
3075 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3077 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3078 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3079 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3084 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3087 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3088 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3089 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3093 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3096 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3098 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3100 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3101 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3105 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3108 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3109 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3113 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3119 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3122 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3123 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3124 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3125 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3126 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3130 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3133 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3134 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3135 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3136 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3140 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3143 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3147 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3150 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3151 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3152 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3153 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3154 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3155 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3156 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3157 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3161 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3167 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3170 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3171 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3172 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3177 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3180 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3184 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3187 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3191 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3194 sections of shared libraries.
3195 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3196 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3197 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3198 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3199 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3200 things you don't want them to.
3201 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3202 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3206 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3209 shared libraries. (#26414)
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3213 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3215 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3216 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3217 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3218 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3222 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3226 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3228 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3229 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3230 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3231 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3232 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3236 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3239 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3243 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3246 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3247 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3252 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3255 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3259 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3262 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3263 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3264 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3265 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3266 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3268 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3269 remove debian/files properly.
3270 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3271 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3272 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3273 * Removed bogus menu file.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3277 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3280 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3284 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3287 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3288 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3289 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3290 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3291 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3292 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3296 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3299 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3300 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3301 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3302 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3306 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3313 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3316 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3317 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3319 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3320 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3321 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3322 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3323 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3324 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3328 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3331 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3332 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3333 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3334 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3335 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3336 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3337 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3338 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3339 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3340 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3341 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3342 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3343 passed any switches.
3344 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3348 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3351 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3352 at all for a long while.
3353 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3354 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3355 large chunks in the process.
3356 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3357 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3358 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3363 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3366 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3368 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3373 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3376 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3377 that don't always have the same files in them.
3378 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3379 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3380 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3384 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3388 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3389 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3390 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3391 updating 27 man pages.
3392 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3393 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3394 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3395 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3396 programs act on. (#25247)
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3400 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3404 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3405 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3406 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3407 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3408 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3409 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3414 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3421 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3428 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3431 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3435 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3441 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3444 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3445 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3446 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3447 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3448 package by accident.
3449 * Is version 1.0 next?
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3453 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3456 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3457 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3461 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3464 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3465 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3466 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3467 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3468 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3470 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3475 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3478 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3479 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3483 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3486 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3490 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3493 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3494 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3499 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3505 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3508 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3509 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3514 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3520 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3523 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3524 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3525 past week. Thanks, guys!
3527 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3528 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3529 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3530 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3531 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3532 would do in the same situation.
3533 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3534 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3536 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3538 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3539 permissions changed.
3540 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3541 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3542 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3543 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3544 files are treated identically.
3545 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3546 * Minor man page fixes.
3547 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3548 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3549 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3553 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3556 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3557 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3558 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3559 use -X multiple times, too.
3560 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3561 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3565 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3568 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3569 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3573 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3576 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3580 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3583 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3584 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3585 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3586 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3587 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3588 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3589 shape if you're starting a new package.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3593 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3596 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3600 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3603 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3604 because of missing symlinks.
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3608 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3614 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3617 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3618 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3619 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3620 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3621 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3623 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3624 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3628 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3630 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3631 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3632 to be changed after the fact :-)
3633 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3637 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3640 no version string after the -V.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3644 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3646 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3647 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3652 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3655 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3659 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3662 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3663 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3664 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3665 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3666 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3667 I always welcome corrections!
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3671 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3677 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3680 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3681 * Documented this new switch.
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3685 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3688 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3689 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3690 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3691 no packages use the old behavior.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3695 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3698 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3699 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3703 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3706 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3710 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3716 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3719 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3723 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3726 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3727 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3728 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3732 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3738 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3741 into the source package by accident.
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3745 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3748 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3749 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3750 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3751 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3752 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3753 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3758 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3762 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3763 inspired to implement some of it.
3764 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3768 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3771 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3775 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3778 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3779 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3783 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3786 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3787 have done.) (#17598)
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3791 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3797 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3803 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3806 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3810 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3813 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3814 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3818 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3821 argument processor in perl.
3822 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3823 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3824 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3825 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3829 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3832 type directories. (#16933)
3833 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3834 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3835 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3836 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3837 are supported. (#16935)
3838 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3843 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3846 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3850 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3854 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3855 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3856 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3857 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3858 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3859 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3863 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3866 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3867 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3869 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3870 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3871 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3872 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3873 a given package, or -i or -a.
3874 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3875 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3876 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3877 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3878 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3879 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3880 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3881 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3882 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3884 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3885 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3886 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3890 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3893 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3894 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3899 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3902 does not have a section.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3906 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3909 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3910 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3911 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3915 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Fixed typo #16215.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3921 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3924 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3925 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3926 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3927 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3928 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3933 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3936 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3937 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3938 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3943 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3949 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3955 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3958 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3959 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3960 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3961 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3962 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3963 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3967 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3973 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3976 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3980 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3983 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3984 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3985 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3989 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3992 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3996 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4002 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4005 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4009 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4012 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4016 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4022 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4025 postinst, postrm, etc.
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4029 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4035 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4038 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4039 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4040 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4041 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4042 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4046 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4049 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4050 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4054 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4057 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4061 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4064 installing package files into.
4065 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4070 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4074 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4078 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4084 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4087 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4091 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4094 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4095 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4096 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4097 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4101 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4103 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4104 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4105 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4106 multiple binary packages.
4107 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4108 should rebuild them with this version.
4109 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4113 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4116 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4120 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4123 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4127 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4130 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4131 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4132 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4133 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4134 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4135 debian/README.debian.
4136 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4137 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4138 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4139 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4140 in a few situations.)
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4144 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4150 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4156 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4159 * Fixed several man pages.
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4163 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4166 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4167 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4171 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4173 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4174 is ready for general use.
4175 * Added man pages for all commands.
4176 * Multiple binary package support.
4177 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4178 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4179 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4181 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4182 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4183 auto-installed as parameters.
4184 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4186 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4189 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4190 the package build directory it is to act on.
4191 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4192 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4193 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4197 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4199 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4200 ready to replace debstd.
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400