1 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
7 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
14 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
21 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
24 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
28 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
31 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
35 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
38 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
41 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
42 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
46 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
52 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
55 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
59 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
62 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
63 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
64 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
66 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
68 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
69 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
70 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
74 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
77 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
82 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
85 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
86 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
87 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
92 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
98 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
104 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
107 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
108 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
109 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
110 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
111 associated -dbg packages.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
115 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
118 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
122 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
125 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
129 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
132 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
136 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
139 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
144 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Typo. Closes: #207999
147 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
151 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
154 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
159 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
162 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
166 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
170 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
171 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
172 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
173 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
174 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
175 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
176 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
177 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
178 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
179 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
183 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
186 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
191 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
194 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
195 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
199 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
201 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
202 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
203 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
208 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
211 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
215 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
218 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
222 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
225 out section number. Closes: #204731
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
229 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
236 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
242 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
248 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Typo, Closes: #203907
251 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
252 removal. Closes: #204286
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
256 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
259 renaming. Closes: #203548
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
263 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
266 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
267 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
271 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
277 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
283 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
289 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
292 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
293 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
294 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
298 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
301 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
302 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
306 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
312 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
319 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
322 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
327 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
330 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
334 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
337 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
339 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
340 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
344 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
347 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
352 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
355 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
359 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
365 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
367 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
371 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
374 it break hard links (see #188663).
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
378 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
381 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
385 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
391 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
395 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
396 debconf-mergetemplates
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
400 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
403 pod2man. Closes: #184013
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
407 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
410 * Typo, Closes: #183267
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
414 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
417 * Update debhelper(1).
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
421 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
423 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
424 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
425 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
426 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
427 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
428 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
432 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
435 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
436 the shell. Closes: #178524
437 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
441 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
444 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
448 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
451 undocumented.7 links anymore.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
455 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
457 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
458 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
459 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
460 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
461 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
466 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
469 files from installation.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
473 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
476 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
477 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
481 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
484 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
488 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
491 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
495 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
501 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
507 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
511 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
512 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
514 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
518 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
520 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
521 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
522 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
523 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
524 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
528 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
530 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
531 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
535 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
538 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
539 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
543 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
547 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
552 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
558 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
562 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
563 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
564 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
569 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
572 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
573 practice. Closes: #163303
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
577 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
583 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
590 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
592 * The "reverse hangover" release.
593 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
595 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
596 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
597 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
598 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
599 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
603 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
606 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
611 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
617 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
624 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
627 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
632 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
634 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
638 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
644 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
650 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
657 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
660 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
661 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
662 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
663 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
668 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Typo, Closes: #155323
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
674 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
681 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
684 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
685 * Removed dh_installxaw.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
689 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
692 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
693 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
694 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
695 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
696 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
700 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
703 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
705 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
710 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
712 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
713 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
717 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
720 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
721 right thing. Closes: #150644
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
725 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
732 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
734 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
739 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
742 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
743 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
748 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
754 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
757 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
761 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
764 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
765 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
770 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
773 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
777 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
783 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
786 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
787 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
791 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
797 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Removing perl warning message.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
803 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
806 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
807 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
808 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
809 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
810 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
811 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
812 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
813 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
817 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
823 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
830 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
833 debconf-mergetemplate.
834 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
835 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
839 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
842 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
843 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
844 dh_install, which ...
845 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
846 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
847 mess, as it uses debian/install.
848 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
849 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
850 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
851 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
852 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
853 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
854 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
855 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
856 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
857 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
858 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
860 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
861 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
862 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
863 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
864 course there's -X ..)
865 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
866 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
867 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
869 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
870 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
871 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
872 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
873 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
878 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
884 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Typo, Closes: #139176
887 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
891 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
897 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
903 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
909 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
915 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
918 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
919 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
920 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
921 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
923 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
924 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
928 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
934 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Typo, Closes: #132454
937 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
941 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
944 upset. Closes: #131322
946 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
948 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
951 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
952 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
953 line, as well as in debian/rules.
954 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
955 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
956 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
957 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
958 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
959 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
960 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
961 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
962 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
963 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
964 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
965 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
967 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
971 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
974 - Better indenting of generated code.
975 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
979 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
983 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
984 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
985 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
986 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
987 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
988 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
989 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
993 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
996 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1000 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1003 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1004 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1005 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1006 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1007 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1008 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1009 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1010 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1011 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1012 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1013 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1014 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1015 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1016 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1017 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1022 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1028 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1031 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1032 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1036 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1039 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1040 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1044 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1050 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1053 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1054 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1055 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1056 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1057 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1062 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1068 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1071 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1075 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1078 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1083 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1089 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1092 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1096 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1102 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1106 Also some indentation fixes.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1110 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1113 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1114 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1115 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1116 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1117 Closes: #106514, #85520
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1121 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1127 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1133 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1139 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1145 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1151 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1154 change it in debhelper v4..
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1158 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1164 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1167 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1171 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1174 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1178 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1184 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1187 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1188 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1189 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1190 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1191 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1192 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1193 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1194 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1195 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1196 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1197 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1198 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1202 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1205 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1209 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1216 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1219 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1220 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1221 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1222 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1223 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1224 program those options go to. So, for example,
1225 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1226 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1227 something complex. Closes: #89311
1228 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1232 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1235 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1236 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1237 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1241 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1244 through loop. Closes: #98598
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1248 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Missing semi-colon.
1251 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1252 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1256 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1259 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1260 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1261 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1265 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1268 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1269 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1273 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1276 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1280 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1283 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1284 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1288 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1291 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1292 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1293 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1297 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1300 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1301 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1302 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1306 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1309 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1313 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1319 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1325 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1331 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1337 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1340 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1344 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1347 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1348 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1349 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1350 followed. Closes: #85483
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1354 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1356 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1357 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1358 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1362 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1365 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1366 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1367 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1368 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1369 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1370 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1371 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1372 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1373 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1374 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1375 Closes: #88464, #77743
1376 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1377 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1378 us to deal with that gracefully.
1379 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1381 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1382 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1383 a while, Closes: #51225
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1387 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1393 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1396 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1400 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1404 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1409 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1412 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1413 don't make packlist files.
1414 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1415 debhelper coding standards.
1416 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1417 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1421 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1424 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1428 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1431 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1432 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1433 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1434 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1435 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1436 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1437 but is mildly deprecated.
1438 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1439 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1440 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1441 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1442 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1443 switching to statoverrides..
1444 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1445 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1446 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1447 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1448 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1449 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1451 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1452 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1453 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1454 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1455 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1456 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1457 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1458 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1459 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1461 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1462 variable names, pod man pages).
1463 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1464 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1465 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1466 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1467 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1468 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1469 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1473 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1479 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1486 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1489 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1493 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1495 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1496 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1497 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1501 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1503 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1504 they were previously ignored.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1508 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1510 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1511 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1515 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1517 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1518 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1519 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1523 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1525 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1529 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1531 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1532 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1536 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1538 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1539 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1540 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1541 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1542 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1543 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1544 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1545 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1546 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1547 it is an obsolete program.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1551 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1553 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1557 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1561 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1563 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1567 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1569 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1571 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1573 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1577 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1583 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * typo: Closes, #78567
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1589 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1595 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1601 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1604 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1605 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1606 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1607 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1608 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1612 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1615 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1620 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1623 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1624 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1625 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1626 backwards-compatability.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1630 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1633 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1634 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1635 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1636 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1637 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1638 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1640 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1641 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1642 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1644 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1646 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1647 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1648 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1649 should now be raised to severity important..
1650 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1651 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1655 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1658 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1663 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1669 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1675 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1681 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1688 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1691 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1692 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1693 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1694 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1698 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1704 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1707 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1708 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1709 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1710 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1711 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1712 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1717 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1720 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1724 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1730 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1733 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1738 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1741 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1742 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1743 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1744 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1748 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1752 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1755 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1758 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1759 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1762 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1764 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1765 the TODO entry about it.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1776 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1779 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1780 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1784 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1787 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1788 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1789 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1790 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1794 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1800 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1807 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1810 (this appears to be logal).
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1814 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1817 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1818 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1819 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1820 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1824 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1830 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1833 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1834 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1835 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1836 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1840 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1846 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1849 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1853 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1860 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1863 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1864 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1865 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1870 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1883 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1886 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1887 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1888 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1889 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1890 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1891 notice until v2 is complete.
1892 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1893 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1894 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1895 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1896 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1897 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1899 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1900 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1901 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1902 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1912 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1919 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1922 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1926 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1933 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1936 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1937 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1938 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1939 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1944 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1947 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1948 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1949 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1954 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1957 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1958 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1962 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1965 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1969 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1972 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1976 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1983 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1986 depend on the build and install targets.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1990 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1993 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1997 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2004 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2010 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2016 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2019 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2020 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2021 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2022 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2023 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2024 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2026 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2027 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2028 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2029 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2030 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2031 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2032 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2036 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2042 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2048 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2051 right place. Closes: #55065
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2055 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2062 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2065 * Copyright date updates.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2069 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2072 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2077 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2083 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2090 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2096 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2102 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2108 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2111 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2112 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2113 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2114 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2115 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2116 bits until all files have been registered.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2120 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_installmanpages:
2123 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2124 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2125 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2126 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2127 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2128 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2129 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2130 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2131 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2132 otherwise change the result at all.
2134 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2135 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2136 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2137 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2138 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2143 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2149 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2152 act on files that don't exist.
2153 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2154 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2155 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2157 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2158 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2159 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2160 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2164 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2170 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2176 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2179 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2183 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2186 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2188 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2189 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2190 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2194 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2197 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2198 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2199 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2200 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2201 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2202 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2203 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2205 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2207 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2211 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2218 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2224 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2230 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2233 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2237 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2243 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2249 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2252 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2253 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2254 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2255 I made some changes, though:
2256 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2257 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2258 that is a clear violation of policy.
2259 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2260 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2261 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2262 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2263 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2264 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2265 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2266 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2267 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2269 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2273 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2279 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2282 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2286 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2289 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2290 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2295 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2301 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2308 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2311 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2312 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2313 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2314 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2315 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2316 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2317 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2321 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2327 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2331 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2332 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2336 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2342 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2345 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2349 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2352 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2353 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2357 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2359 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2364 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2368 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2372 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2375 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2376 for the dependancies to be generated.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2380 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2383 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2387 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2390 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2391 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2392 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2397 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2400 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2401 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2405 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2411 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2417 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2420 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2424 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2430 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2433 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2434 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2435 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2436 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2437 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2438 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2439 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2440 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2441 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2442 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2443 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2444 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2448 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2451 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2452 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2454 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2455 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2456 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2457 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2458 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2459 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2461 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2462 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2466 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2469 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2473 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2480 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2483 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2488 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2491 for building debhelper.
2492 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2496 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2503 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2506 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2510 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2513 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2514 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2515 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2516 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2517 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2518 it's always available.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2522 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2525 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2526 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2527 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2531 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2534 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2535 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2539 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2545 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2548 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2552 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2558 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2561 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2562 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2563 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2567 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2570 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2575 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2578 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2579 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2581 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2582 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2586 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2592 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2598 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2601 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2605 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2608 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2609 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2611 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2615 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2618 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2619 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2620 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2624 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2627 things if CDPATH is set.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2631 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2637 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2640 seems to make sense for the transition.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2644 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2647 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2652 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2655 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2656 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2660 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2663 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2667 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2670 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2671 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2672 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2673 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2677 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2683 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2686 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2687 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2688 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2689 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2690 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2691 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2692 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2693 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2694 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2695 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2700 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2703 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2704 * README: mention doc/v2
2705 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2706 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2710 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2712 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2713 be using this script RSN.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2717 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2720 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2721 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2722 more than 1 init script.
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2726 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2729 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2733 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Changed perl version detection.
2736 * Changed call to find.
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2740 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2743 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2745 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2750 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Really include dh_installpam.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2756 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2759 * Wrote man page for same.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2763 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2766 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2767 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2772 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2779 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2782 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2783 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2784 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2785 x bit was being set!
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2789 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2792 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2793 well. (Closes: 38900)
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2797 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2800 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2801 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2805 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2811 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2818 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2824 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2827 help from Julian Gilbey.
2828 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2829 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2830 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2831 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2832 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2833 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2834 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2839 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2845 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2852 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2858 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2864 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2867 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2871 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2874 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2878 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2881 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2885 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2891 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2894 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2898 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2904 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2910 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2913 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2914 may be deleted. (#35845)
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2918 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Various man page enhancements.
2921 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2926 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2929 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2930 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2934 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2937 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2938 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2939 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2941 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2942 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2947 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2953 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * Another very minor typo fix.
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2959 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Very minor typo fix.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2965 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2968 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2969 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2973 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2979 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2982 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2983 variables properly (#34850).
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2987 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2993 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2996 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2997 (automatically generated by build process).
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3001 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3003 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3007 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3010 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3011 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3013 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3017 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3020 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3024 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * README: minor typo fix.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3030 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3033 leave it at that. :-)
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3037 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3043 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3049 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3052 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3053 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3054 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3058 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3061 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3065 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3068 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3072 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3075 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3076 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3077 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3078 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3082 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3085 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3086 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3087 Craig Small for spotting this.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3091 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3094 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3095 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3099 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3105 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3108 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3112 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3114 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3115 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3116 working on the last version of debhelper.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3120 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3123 being made. (#23255)
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3127 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3133 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3136 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3140 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3143 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3144 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3145 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3146 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3150 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3153 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3154 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3155 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3156 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3158 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3159 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3161 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3166 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3172 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3178 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3181 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3182 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3183 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3184 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3185 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3186 suidregister actually supports it.
3187 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3188 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3192 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3199 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3202 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3203 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3204 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3205 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3206 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3207 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3208 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3212 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3214 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3215 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3219 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3222 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3223 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3224 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3225 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3229 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3232 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3234 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3235 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3236 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3237 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3238 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3239 effect, either. (#30118)
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3243 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3249 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3252 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3253 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3257 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3263 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3266 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3267 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3268 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3269 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3273 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3276 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3277 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3281 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3287 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3290 packages, painlessly.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3294 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3300 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3306 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3312 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * The perl conversion is complete.
3316 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3318 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3319 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3320 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3325 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3328 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3329 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3330 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3334 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3337 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3339 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3341 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3342 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3346 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3349 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3350 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3354 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3360 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3363 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3364 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3365 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3366 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3367 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3371 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3374 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3375 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3376 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3377 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3381 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3384 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3388 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3391 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3392 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3393 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3394 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3395 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3396 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3397 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3398 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3402 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3408 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3411 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3412 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3413 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3418 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3421 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3425 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3428 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3432 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3435 sections of shared libraries.
3436 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3437 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3438 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3439 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3440 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3441 things you don't want them to.
3442 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3443 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3447 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3450 shared libraries. (#26414)
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3454 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3456 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3457 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3458 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3459 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3463 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3467 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3469 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3470 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3471 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3472 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3473 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3477 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3480 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3484 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3487 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3488 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3493 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3496 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3500 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3503 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3504 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3505 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3506 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3507 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3509 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3510 remove debian/files properly.
3511 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3512 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3513 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3514 * Removed bogus menu file.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3518 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3521 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3525 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3528 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3529 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3530 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3531 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3532 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3533 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3537 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3540 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3541 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3542 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3543 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3547 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3554 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3557 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3558 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3560 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3561 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3562 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3563 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3564 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3565 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3569 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3572 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3573 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3574 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3575 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3576 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3577 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3578 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3579 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3580 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3581 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3582 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3583 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3584 passed any switches.
3585 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3589 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3592 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3593 at all for a long while.
3594 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3595 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3596 large chunks in the process.
3597 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3598 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3599 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3604 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3607 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3609 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3614 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3617 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3618 that don't always have the same files in them.
3619 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3620 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3621 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3625 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3629 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3630 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3631 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3632 updating 27 man pages.
3633 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3634 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3635 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3636 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3637 programs act on. (#25247)
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3641 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3645 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3646 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3647 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3648 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3649 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3650 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3655 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3662 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3669 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3672 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3676 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3682 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3685 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3686 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3687 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3688 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3689 package by accident.
3690 * Is version 1.0 next?
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3694 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3697 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3698 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3702 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3705 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3706 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3707 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3708 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3709 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3711 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3716 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3719 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3720 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3724 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3727 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3731 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3734 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3735 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3740 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3746 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3749 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3750 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3755 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3761 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3764 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3765 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3766 past week. Thanks, guys!
3768 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3769 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3770 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3771 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3772 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3773 would do in the same situation.
3774 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3775 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3777 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3779 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3780 permissions changed.
3781 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3782 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3783 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3784 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3785 files are treated identically.
3786 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3787 * Minor man page fixes.
3788 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3789 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3790 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3794 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3797 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3798 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3799 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3800 use -X multiple times, too.
3801 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3802 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3806 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3809 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3810 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3814 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3817 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3821 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3824 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3825 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3826 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3827 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3828 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3829 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3830 shape if you're starting a new package.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3834 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3837 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3841 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3844 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3845 because of missing symlinks.
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3849 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3855 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3858 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3859 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3860 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3861 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3862 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3864 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3865 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3869 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3871 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3872 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3873 to be changed after the fact :-)
3874 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3878 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3880 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3881 no version string after the -V.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3885 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3887 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3888 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3893 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3896 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3900 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3903 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3904 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3905 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3906 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3907 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3908 I always welcome corrections!
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3912 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3918 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3921 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3922 * Documented this new switch.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3926 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3929 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3930 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3931 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3932 no packages use the old behavior.
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3936 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3939 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3940 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3944 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3947 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3951 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3957 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3960 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3964 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3967 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3968 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3969 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3973 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3979 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3982 into the source package by accident.
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3986 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3989 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3990 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3991 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3992 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3993 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3994 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3999 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4003 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4004 inspired to implement some of it.
4005 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4009 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4012 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4016 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4019 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4020 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4024 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4027 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4028 have done.) (#17598)
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4032 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4038 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4044 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4047 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4051 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4054 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4055 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4059 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4062 argument processor in perl.
4063 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4064 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4065 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4066 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4070 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4073 type directories. (#16933)
4074 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4075 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4076 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4077 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4078 are supported. (#16935)
4079 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4084 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4087 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4091 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4095 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4096 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4097 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4098 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4099 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4100 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4104 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4107 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4108 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4110 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4111 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4112 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4113 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4114 a given package, or -i or -a.
4115 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4116 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4117 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4118 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4119 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4120 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4121 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4122 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4123 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4125 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4126 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4127 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4131 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4134 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4135 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4140 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4143 does not have a section.
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4147 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4150 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4151 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4152 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4156 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * Fixed typo #16215.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4162 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4165 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4166 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4167 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4168 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4169 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4174 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4177 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4178 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4179 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4184 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4190 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4196 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4199 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4200 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4201 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4202 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4203 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4204 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4208 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4214 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4216 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4217 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4221 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4224 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4225 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4226 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4230 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4233 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4237 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4243 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4246 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4250 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4253 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4257 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4263 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4266 postinst, postrm, etc.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4270 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4276 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4279 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4280 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4281 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4282 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4283 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4287 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4290 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4291 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4295 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4298 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4302 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4305 installing package files into.
4306 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4311 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4315 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4319 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4325 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4328 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4332 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4335 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4336 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4337 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4338 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4342 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4344 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4345 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4346 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4347 multiple binary packages.
4348 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4349 should rebuild them with this version.
4350 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4354 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4357 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4361 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4364 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4368 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4371 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4372 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4373 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4374 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4375 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4376 debian/README.debian.
4377 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4378 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4379 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4380 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4381 in a few situations.)
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4385 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4391 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4397 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4400 * Fixed several man pages.
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4404 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4407 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4408 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4412 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4415 is ready for general use.
4416 * Added man pages for all commands.
4417 * Multiple binary package support.
4418 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4419 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4420 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4422 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4423 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4424 auto-installed as parameters.
4425 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4427 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4430 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4431 the package build directory it is to act on.
4432 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4433 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4434 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4438 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4440 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4441 ready to replace debstd.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400