1 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
4 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
5 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
6 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
7 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
8 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
9 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
10 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
11 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
12 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
13 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
14 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
15 prefixed with ".debhelper")
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
19 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
21 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
22 look just like shared libs, but are not.
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
26 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
33 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
36 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
37 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
38 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
39 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
40 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
41 program those options go to. So, for example,
42 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
43 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
44 something complex. Closes: #89311
45 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
49 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
52 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
53 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
54 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
58 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
61 through loop. Closes: #98598
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
65 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
69 this (dh_* should be called, really).
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
73 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
76 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
77 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
78 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
82 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
85 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
86 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
90 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
93 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
97 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
100 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
101 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
105 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
108 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
109 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
110 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
114 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
117 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
118 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
119 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
123 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
126 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
130 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
136 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Typo, Closes: #92407
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
142 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
148 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
154 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
157 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
161 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
164 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
165 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
166 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
167 followed. Closes: #85483
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
171 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
173 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
174 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
175 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
179 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
182 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
183 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
184 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
185 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
186 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
187 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
188 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
189 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
190 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
191 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
192 Closes: #88464, #77743
193 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
194 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
195 us to deal with that gracefully.
196 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
198 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
199 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
200 a while, Closes: #51225
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
204 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
210 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
213 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
217 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
221 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
226 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
229 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
230 don't make packlist files.
231 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
232 debhelper coding standards.
233 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
234 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
238 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
241 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
245 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
248 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
249 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
250 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
251 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
252 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
253 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
254 but is mildly deprecated.
255 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
256 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
257 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
258 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
259 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
260 switching to statoverrides..
261 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
262 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
263 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
264 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
265 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
266 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
268 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
269 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
270 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
271 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
272 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
273 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
274 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
275 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
276 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
278 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
279 variable names, pod man pages).
280 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
281 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
282 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
283 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
284 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
285 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
286 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
290 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
292 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
296 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
303 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
306 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
310 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
312 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
313 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
314 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
318 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
320 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
321 they were previously ignored.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
325 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
327 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
328 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
332 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
334 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
335 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
336 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
340 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
342 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
346 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
348 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
349 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
353 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
355 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
356 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
357 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
358 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
359 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
360 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
361 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
362 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
363 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
364 it is an obsolete program.
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
368 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
370 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
374 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
378 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
380 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
384 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
386 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
388 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
390 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
394 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
400 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
402 * typo: Closes, #78567
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
406 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
412 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
418 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
420 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
421 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
422 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
423 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
424 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
425 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
429 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
432 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
437 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
440 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
441 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
442 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
443 backwards-compatability.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
447 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
449 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
450 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
451 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
452 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
453 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
454 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
455 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
457 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
458 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
459 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
461 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
463 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
464 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
465 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
466 should now be raised to severity important..
467 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
468 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
472 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
475 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
480 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Typo, Closes: #77441
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
486 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Completed the fix from the last version.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
492 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
498 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
500 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
505 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
508 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
509 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
510 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
511 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
515 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
521 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
524 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
525 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
526 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
527 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
528 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
529 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
534 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
537 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
541 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
547 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
550 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
555 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
558 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
559 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
560 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
561 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
565 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
569 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
572 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
575 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
576 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
579 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
581 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
582 the TODO entry about it.
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
586 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
588 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
593 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
596 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
597 prevent that. Closes: #73052
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
601 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Typo, Closes: #72932
604 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
605 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
606 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
607 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
611 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
617 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
624 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
627 (this appears to be logal).
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
631 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
634 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
635 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
636 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
637 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
641 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
647 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
649 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
650 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
651 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
652 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
653 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
657 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
663 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
666 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
670 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
677 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
680 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
681 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
682 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
687 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
694 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
700 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
702 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
703 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
704 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
705 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
706 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
707 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
708 notice until v2 is complete.
709 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
710 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
711 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
712 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
713 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
714 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
716 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
717 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
718 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
719 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
723 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
729 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
736 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
739 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
743 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
750 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
753 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
754 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
755 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
756 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
761 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
764 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
765 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
766 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
771 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
774 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
775 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
779 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
782 just skip files that end in -\d+.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
786 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
789 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
793 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
800 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
802 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
803 depend on the build and install targets.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
807 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
810 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
814 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
821 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
827 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
833 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
836 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
837 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
838 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
839 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
840 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
841 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
843 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
844 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
845 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
846 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
847 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
848 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
849 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
853 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
859 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
865 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
868 right place. Closes: #55065
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
872 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
879 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Make all examples rules files executable.
882 * Copyright date updates.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
886 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
889 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
894 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
900 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
907 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
913 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
919 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
925 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
928 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
929 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
930 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
931 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
932 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
933 bits until all files have been registered.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
937 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_installmanpages:
940 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
941 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
942 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
943 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
944 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
945 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
946 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
947 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
948 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
949 otherwise change the result at all.
951 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
952 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
953 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
954 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
955 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
960 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
966 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
969 act on files that don't exist.
970 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
971 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
972 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
974 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
975 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
976 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
977 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
981 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
987 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
993 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
996 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1000 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1003 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1005 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1006 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1007 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1011 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1014 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1015 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1016 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1017 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1018 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1019 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1020 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1022 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1024 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1028 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1035 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1041 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1047 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1050 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1054 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1060 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1066 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1069 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1070 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1071 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1072 I made some changes, though:
1073 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1074 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1075 that is a clear violation of policy.
1076 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1077 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1078 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1079 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1080 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1081 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1082 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1083 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1084 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1086 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1090 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1096 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1099 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1103 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1106 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1107 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1112 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1118 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1125 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1128 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1129 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1130 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1131 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1132 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1133 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1134 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1138 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1144 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1148 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1149 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1153 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1162 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1166 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1169 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1170 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1174 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1176 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1181 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1185 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1189 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1192 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1193 for the dependancies to be generated.
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1197 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1200 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1204 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1207 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1208 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1209 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1214 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1217 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1218 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1222 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1228 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1234 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1237 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1241 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1247 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1250 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1251 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1252 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1253 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1254 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1255 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1256 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1257 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1258 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1259 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1260 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1261 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1265 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1268 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1269 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1271 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1272 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1273 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1274 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1275 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1276 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1278 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1279 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1283 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1286 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1290 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1297 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1300 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1305 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1308 for building debhelper.
1309 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1313 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1320 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1323 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1327 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1330 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1331 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1332 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1333 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1334 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1335 it's always available.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1339 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1342 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1343 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1344 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1348 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1351 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1352 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1356 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1362 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1365 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1369 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1375 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1378 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1379 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1380 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1384 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1387 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1392 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1395 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1396 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1398 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1399 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1403 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1409 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1415 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1418 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1422 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1425 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1426 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1428 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1432 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1435 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1436 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1437 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1441 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1444 things if CDPATH is set.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1448 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1454 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1457 seems to make sense for the transition.
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1461 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1464 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1469 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1472 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1473 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1477 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1480 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1484 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1487 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1488 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1489 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1490 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1494 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1500 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1503 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1504 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1505 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1506 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1507 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1508 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1509 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1510 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1511 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1512 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1517 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1520 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1521 * README: mention doc/v2
1522 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1523 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1527 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1529 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1530 be using this script RSN.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1534 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1537 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1538 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1539 more than 1 init script.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1543 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1546 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1550 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Changed perl version detection.
1553 * Changed call to find.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1557 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1560 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1562 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1567 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Really include dh_installpam.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1573 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1576 * Wrote man page for same.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1580 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1583 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1584 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1589 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1596 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1599 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1600 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1601 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1602 x bit was being set!
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1606 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1609 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1610 well. (Closes: 38900)
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1614 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1617 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1618 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1622 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1628 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1635 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1641 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1644 help from Julian Gilbey.
1645 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1646 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1647 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1648 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1649 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1650 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1651 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1656 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1662 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1669 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1675 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1681 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1684 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1688 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1691 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1695 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1698 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1702 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1708 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1711 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1715 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1721 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1727 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1730 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1731 may be deleted. (#35845)
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1735 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Various man page enhancements.
1738 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1743 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1746 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1747 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1751 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1754 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1755 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1756 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1758 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1759 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1764 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1770 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Another very minor typo fix.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1776 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Very minor typo fix.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1782 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1785 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1786 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1790 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1796 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1799 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1800 variables properly (#34850).
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1804 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1810 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1813 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1814 (automatically generated by build process).
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1818 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1820 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1824 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1827 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1828 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1830 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1834 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1837 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1841 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * README: minor typo fix.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1847 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1850 leave it at that. :-)
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1854 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1860 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1866 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1869 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1870 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1871 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1875 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1878 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1882 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1885 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1889 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1892 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1893 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1894 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1895 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1899 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1902 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1903 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1904 Craig Small for spotting this.
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1908 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1911 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1912 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1916 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1922 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1925 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1929 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1931 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1932 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1933 working on the last version of debhelper.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1937 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1940 being made. (#23255)
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1944 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1950 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1953 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1957 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1960 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1961 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1962 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1963 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1967 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1970 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1971 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1972 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1973 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1975 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1976 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1978 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1983 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1989 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1995 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1998 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1999 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2000 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2001 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2002 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2003 suidregister actually supports it.
2004 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2005 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2009 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2016 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2019 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2020 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2021 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2022 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2023 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2024 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2025 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2029 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2031 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2032 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2036 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2039 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2040 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2041 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2042 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2046 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2049 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2051 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2052 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2053 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2054 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2055 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2056 effect, either. (#30118)
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2060 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2066 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2069 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2070 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2074 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2080 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2083 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2084 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2085 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2086 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2090 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2093 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2094 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2098 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2104 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2107 packages, painlessly.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2111 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2117 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2123 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2129 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * The perl conversion is complete.
2133 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2135 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2136 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2137 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2142 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2145 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2146 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2147 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2151 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2154 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2156 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2158 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2159 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2163 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2166 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2167 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2171 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2177 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2180 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2181 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2182 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2183 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2184 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2188 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2191 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2192 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2193 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2194 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2198 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2201 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2205 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2208 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2209 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2210 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2211 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2212 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2213 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2214 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2215 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2219 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2225 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2228 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2229 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2230 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2235 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2238 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2242 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2245 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2249 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2252 sections of shared libraries.
2253 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2254 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2255 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2256 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2257 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2258 things you don't want them to.
2259 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2260 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2264 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2267 shared libraries. (#26414)
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2271 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2273 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2274 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2275 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2276 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2280 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2284 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2286 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2287 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2288 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2289 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2290 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2294 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2297 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2301 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2304 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2305 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2310 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2313 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2317 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2320 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2321 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2322 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2323 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2324 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2326 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2327 remove debian/files properly.
2328 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2329 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2330 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2331 * Removed bogus menu file.
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2335 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2338 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2342 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2345 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2346 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2347 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2348 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2349 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2350 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2354 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2357 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2358 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2359 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2360 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2364 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2371 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2374 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2375 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2377 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2378 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2379 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2380 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2381 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2382 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2386 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2389 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2390 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2391 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2392 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2393 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2394 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2395 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2396 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2397 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2398 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2399 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2400 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2401 passed any switches.
2402 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2406 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2409 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2410 at all for a long while.
2411 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2412 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2413 large chunks in the process.
2414 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2415 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2416 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2421 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2424 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2426 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2431 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2434 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2435 that don't always have the same files in them.
2436 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2437 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2438 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2442 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2446 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2447 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2448 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2449 updating 27 man pages.
2450 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2451 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2452 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2453 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2454 programs act on. (#25247)
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2458 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2462 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2463 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2464 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2465 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2466 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2467 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2472 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2479 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2486 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2489 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2493 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2499 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2502 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2503 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2504 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2505 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2506 package by accident.
2507 * Is version 1.0 next?
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2511 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2514 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2515 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2519 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2522 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2523 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2524 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2525 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2526 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2528 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2533 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2536 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2537 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2541 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2544 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2548 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2551 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2552 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2557 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2563 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2566 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2567 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2572 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2578 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2581 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2582 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2583 past week. Thanks, guys!
2585 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2586 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2587 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2588 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2589 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2590 would do in the same situation.
2591 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2592 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2594 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2596 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2597 permissions changed.
2598 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2599 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2600 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2601 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2602 files are treated identically.
2603 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2604 * Minor man page fixes.
2605 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2606 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2607 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2611 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2614 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2615 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2616 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2617 use -X multiple times, too.
2618 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2619 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2623 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2626 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2627 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2631 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2634 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2638 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2641 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2642 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2643 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2644 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2645 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2646 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2647 shape if you're starting a new package.
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2651 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2654 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2658 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2661 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2662 because of missing symlinks.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2666 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2672 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2675 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2676 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2677 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2678 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2679 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2681 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2682 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2686 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2688 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2689 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2690 to be changed after the fact :-)
2691 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2695 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2698 no version string after the -V.
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2702 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2704 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2705 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2710 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2713 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2717 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2720 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2721 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2722 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2723 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2724 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2725 I always welcome corrections!
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2729 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2735 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2738 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2739 * Documented this new switch.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2743 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2746 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2747 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2748 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2749 no packages use the old behavior.
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2753 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2756 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2757 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2761 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2764 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2768 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2774 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2777 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2781 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2784 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2785 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2786 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2790 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2796 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2799 into the source package by accident.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2803 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2806 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2807 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2808 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2809 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2810 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2811 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2816 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2820 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2821 inspired to implement some of it.
2822 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2826 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2829 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2833 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2836 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2837 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2841 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2844 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2845 have done.) (#17598)
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2849 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2855 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2861 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2864 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2868 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2871 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2872 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2876 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2879 argument processor in perl.
2880 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2881 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2882 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2883 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2887 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2890 type directories. (#16933)
2891 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2892 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2893 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2894 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2895 are supported. (#16935)
2896 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2901 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2904 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2908 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2912 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2913 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2914 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2915 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2916 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2917 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2921 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2924 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2925 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2927 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2928 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2929 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2930 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2931 a given package, or -i or -a.
2932 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2933 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2934 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2935 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2936 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2937 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2938 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2939 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2940 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2942 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2943 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2944 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2948 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2951 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2952 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2957 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2960 does not have a section.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2964 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2967 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2968 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2969 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2973 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Fixed typo #16215.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2979 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2982 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2983 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2984 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2985 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2986 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2991 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2994 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2995 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2996 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3001 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3007 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3013 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3016 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3017 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3018 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3019 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3020 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3021 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3025 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3031 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3034 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3038 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3041 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3042 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3043 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3047 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3050 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3054 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3060 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3063 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3067 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3070 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3074 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3080 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3083 postinst, postrm, etc.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3087 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3093 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3096 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3097 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3098 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3099 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3100 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3104 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3107 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3108 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3112 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3115 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3119 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3122 installing package files into.
3123 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3128 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3132 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3136 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3142 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3145 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3149 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3152 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3153 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3154 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3155 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3159 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3161 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3162 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3163 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3164 multiple binary packages.
3165 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3166 should rebuild them with this version.
3167 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3171 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3174 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3178 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3181 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3185 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3188 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3189 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3190 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3191 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3192 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3193 debian/README.debian.
3194 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3195 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3196 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3197 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3198 in a few situations.)
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3202 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3208 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3214 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3217 * Fixed several man pages.
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3221 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3224 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3225 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3229 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3232 is ready for general use.
3233 * Added man pages for all commands.
3234 * Multiple binary package support.
3235 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3236 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3237 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3239 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3240 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3241 auto-installed as parameters.
3242 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3244 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3247 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3248 the package build directory it is to act on.
3249 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3250 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3251 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3255 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3257 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3258 ready to replace debstd.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400