1 debhelper (4.2.24) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Spanish man page updates.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
7 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
13 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
15 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
16 * dh_desktop: reindent
17 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
18 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
22 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
28 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
30 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
34 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
36 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
40 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367a
43 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378a
44 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
48 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
54 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
60 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
67 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
70 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
74 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
77 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
78 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
79 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
80 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
81 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
82 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
84 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
85 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
86 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
87 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
88 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
89 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
90 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
91 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
92 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
93 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
94 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
95 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
96 in the others, and added a few new tests.
97 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
98 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
99 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
103 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
110 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
113 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
117 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
120 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
124 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
127 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
131 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
134 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
138 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
144 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
150 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
156 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
159 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
160 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
161 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
165 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
168 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
172 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
175 but occasionally right and necessary.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
179 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
182 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
183 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
184 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
185 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
186 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937a
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
190 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
193 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
195 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
196 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
197 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
198 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
199 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
200 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
201 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
202 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
203 postinst scripts for udebs.
204 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
208 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
211 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
213 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
214 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
218 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
224 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
231 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
238 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
241 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
245 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
248 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
252 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
255 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
258 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
259 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
263 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
269 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
272 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
276 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
279 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
280 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
281 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
283 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
285 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
286 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
287 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
291 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
294 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
299 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
302 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
303 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
304 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
309 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
315 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
321 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
324 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
325 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
326 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
327 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
328 associated -dbg packages.
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
332 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
335 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
339 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
342 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
346 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
349 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
353 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
356 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
361 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Typo. Closes: #207999
364 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
368 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
371 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
376 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
379 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
383 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
387 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
388 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
389 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
390 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
391 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
392 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
393 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
394 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
395 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
396 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
400 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
403 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
408 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
411 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
412 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
416 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
419 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
420 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
425 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
428 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
432 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
435 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
439 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
442 out section number. Closes: #204731
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
446 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
453 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
459 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
465 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Typo, Closes: #203907
468 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
469 removal. Closes: #204286
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
473 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
476 renaming. Closes: #203548
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
480 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
483 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
484 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
488 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
494 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
500 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
506 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
508 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
509 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
510 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
511 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
515 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
518 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
519 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
523 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
529 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
536 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
539 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
544 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
547 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
551 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
554 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
556 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
557 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
561 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
563 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
564 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
569 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
572 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
576 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
582 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
584 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
588 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
591 it break hard links (see #188663).
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
595 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
598 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
602 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
608 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
612 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
613 debconf-mergetemplates
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
617 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
620 pod2man. Closes: #184013
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
624 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
627 * Typo, Closes: #183267
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
631 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
634 * Update debhelper(1).
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
638 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
640 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
641 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
642 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
643 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
644 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
645 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
649 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
652 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
653 the shell. Closes: #178524
654 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
658 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
661 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
665 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
668 undocumented.7 links anymore.
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
672 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
674 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
675 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
676 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
677 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
678 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
683 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
686 files from installation.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
690 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
693 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
694 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
698 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
701 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
705 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
708 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
712 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
718 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
724 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
728 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
729 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
731 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
735 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
738 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
739 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
740 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
741 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
745 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
747 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
748 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
752 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
755 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
756 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
760 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
764 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
769 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
775 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
779 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
780 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
781 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
786 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
789 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
790 practice. Closes: #163303
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
794 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
800 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
807 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
809 * The "reverse hangover" release.
810 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
812 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
813 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
814 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
815 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
816 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
820 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
823 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
828 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
834 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
841 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
844 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
849 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
855 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
861 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
867 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
874 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
877 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
878 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
879 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
880 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
885 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Typo, Closes: #155323
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
891 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
898 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
901 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
902 * Removed dh_installxaw.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
906 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
909 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
910 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
911 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
912 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
913 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
917 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
920 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
922 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
927 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
929 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
930 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
934 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
937 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
938 right thing. Closes: #150644
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
942 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
949 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
951 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
956 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
959 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
960 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
965 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
971 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
974 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
978 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
981 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
982 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
987 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
990 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
994 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1000 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1003 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1004 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1008 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1014 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Removing perl warning message.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1020 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1023 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1024 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1025 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1026 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1027 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1028 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1029 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1030 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1034 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1040 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1047 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1050 debconf-mergetemplate.
1051 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1052 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1056 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1059 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1060 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1061 dh_install, which ...
1062 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1063 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1064 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1065 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1066 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1067 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1068 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1069 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1070 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1071 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1072 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1073 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1074 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1075 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1076 other minor changes.
1077 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1078 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1079 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1080 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1081 course there's -X ..)
1082 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1083 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1084 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1086 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1087 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1088 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1089 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1090 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1095 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1101 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1104 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1108 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1114 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1120 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1126 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1132 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1135 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1136 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1137 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1138 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1140 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1141 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1145 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1151 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1154 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1158 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1161 upset. Closes: #131322
1163 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1165 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1168 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1169 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1170 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1171 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1172 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1173 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1174 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1175 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1176 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1177 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1178 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1179 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1180 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1181 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1182 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1184 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1188 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1191 - Better indenting of generated code.
1192 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1196 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1200 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1201 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1202 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1203 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1204 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1205 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1206 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1210 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1213 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1217 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1220 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1221 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1222 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1223 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1224 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1225 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1226 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1227 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1228 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1229 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1230 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1231 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1232 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1233 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1234 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1239 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1245 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1248 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1249 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1253 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1256 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1257 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1261 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1267 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1270 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1271 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1272 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1273 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1274 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1279 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1285 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1288 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1292 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1295 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1300 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1306 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1309 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1313 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1319 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1323 Also some indentation fixes.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1327 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1330 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1331 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1332 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1333 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1334 Closes: #106514, #85520
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1338 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1344 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1350 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1356 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1362 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1368 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1371 change it in debhelper v4..
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1375 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1381 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1384 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1388 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1391 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1395 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1401 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1404 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1405 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1406 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1407 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1408 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1409 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1410 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1411 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1412 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1413 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1414 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1415 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1419 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1422 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1426 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1433 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1436 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1437 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1438 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1439 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1440 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1441 program those options go to. So, for example,
1442 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1443 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1444 something complex. Closes: #89311
1445 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1449 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1452 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1453 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1454 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1458 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1461 through loop. Closes: #98598
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1465 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Missing semi-colon.
1468 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1469 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1473 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1476 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1477 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1478 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1482 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1485 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1486 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1490 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1493 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1497 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1500 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1501 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1505 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1508 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1509 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1510 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1514 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1517 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1518 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1519 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1523 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1526 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1530 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1536 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1542 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1548 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1554 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1557 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1561 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1564 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1565 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1566 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1567 followed. Closes: #85483
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1571 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1573 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1574 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1575 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1579 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1582 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1583 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1584 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1585 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1586 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1587 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1588 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1589 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1590 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1591 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1592 Closes: #88464, #77743
1593 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1594 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1595 us to deal with that gracefully.
1596 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1598 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1599 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1600 a while, Closes: #51225
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1604 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1610 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1613 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1617 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1621 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1626 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1629 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1630 don't make packlist files.
1631 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1632 debhelper coding standards.
1633 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1634 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1638 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1641 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1645 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1648 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1649 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1650 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1651 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1652 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1653 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1654 but is mildly deprecated.
1655 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1656 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1657 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1658 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1659 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1660 switching to statoverrides..
1661 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1662 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1663 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1664 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1665 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1666 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1668 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1669 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1670 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1671 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1672 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1673 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1674 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1675 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1676 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1678 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1679 variable names, pod man pages).
1680 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1681 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1682 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1683 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1684 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1685 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1686 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1690 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1696 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1703 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1706 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1710 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1712 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1713 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1714 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1718 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1720 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1721 they were previously ignored.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1725 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1727 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1728 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1732 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1734 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1735 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1736 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1740 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1742 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1746 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1748 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1749 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1753 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1755 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1756 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1757 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1758 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1759 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1760 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1761 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1762 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1763 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1764 it is an obsolete program.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1768 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1770 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1774 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1778 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1780 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1784 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1786 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1788 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1790 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1794 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1800 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * typo: Closes, #78567
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1806 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1812 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1818 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1821 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1822 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1823 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1824 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1825 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1829 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1832 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1837 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1840 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1841 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1842 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1843 backwards-compatability.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1847 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1850 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1851 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1852 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1853 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1854 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1855 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1857 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1858 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1859 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1861 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1863 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1864 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1865 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1866 should now be raised to severity important..
1867 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1868 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1872 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1875 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1880 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1886 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1892 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1898 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1905 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1908 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1909 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1910 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1911 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1915 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1921 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1924 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1925 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1926 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1927 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1928 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1929 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1934 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1937 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1941 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1947 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1950 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1955 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1958 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1959 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1960 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1961 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1965 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1969 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1972 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1975 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1976 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1979 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1981 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1982 the TODO entry about it.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1986 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1993 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1996 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1997 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2001 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2004 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2005 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2006 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2007 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2011 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2017 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2024 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2027 (this appears to be logal).
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2031 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2034 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2035 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2036 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2037 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2041 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2047 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2050 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2051 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2052 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2053 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2057 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2063 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2066 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2070 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2077 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2080 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2081 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2082 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2087 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2094 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2100 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2103 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2104 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2105 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2106 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2107 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2108 notice until v2 is complete.
2109 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2110 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2111 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2112 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2113 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2114 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2116 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2117 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2118 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2119 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2123 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2129 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2136 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2139 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2143 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2150 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2153 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2154 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2155 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2156 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2161 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2164 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2165 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2166 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2171 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2174 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2175 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2179 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2182 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2186 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2189 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2193 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2200 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2203 depend on the build and install targets.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2207 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2210 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2214 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2221 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2227 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2233 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2236 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2237 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2238 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2239 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2240 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2241 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2243 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2244 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2245 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2246 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2247 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2248 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2249 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2253 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2259 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2265 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2268 right place. Closes: #55065
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2272 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2279 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2282 * Copyright date updates.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2286 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2289 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2294 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2300 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2307 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2313 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2319 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2325 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2328 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2329 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2330 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2331 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2332 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2333 bits until all files have been registered.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2337 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_installmanpages:
2340 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2341 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2342 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2343 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2344 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2345 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2346 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2347 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2348 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2349 otherwise change the result at all.
2351 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2352 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2353 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2354 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2355 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2360 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2366 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2369 act on files that don't exist.
2370 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2371 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2372 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2374 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2375 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2376 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2377 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2381 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2387 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2393 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2396 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2400 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2403 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2405 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2406 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2407 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2411 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2414 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2415 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2416 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2417 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2418 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2419 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2420 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2422 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2424 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2428 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2435 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2441 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2447 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2450 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2454 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2460 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2466 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2469 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2470 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2471 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2472 I made some changes, though:
2473 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2474 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2475 that is a clear violation of policy.
2476 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2477 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2478 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2479 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2480 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2481 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2482 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2483 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2484 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2486 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2490 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2496 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2499 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2503 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2506 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2507 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2512 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2518 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2525 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2528 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2529 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2530 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2531 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2532 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2533 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2534 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2538 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2544 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2548 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2549 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2553 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2559 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2562 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2566 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2569 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2570 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2574 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2576 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2581 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2585 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2589 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2592 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2593 for the dependancies to be generated.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2597 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2600 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2604 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2607 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2608 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2609 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2614 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2617 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2618 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2622 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2628 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2634 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2637 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2641 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2647 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2650 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2651 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2652 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2653 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2654 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2655 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2656 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2657 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2658 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2659 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2660 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2661 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2665 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2668 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2669 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2671 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2672 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2673 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2674 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2675 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2676 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2678 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2679 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2683 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2686 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2690 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2697 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2700 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2705 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2708 for building debhelper.
2709 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2713 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2720 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2723 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2727 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2730 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2731 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2732 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2733 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2734 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2735 it's always available.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2739 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2742 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2743 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2744 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2748 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2751 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2752 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2756 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2762 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2765 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2769 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2775 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2778 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2779 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2780 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2784 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2787 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2792 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2795 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2796 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2798 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2799 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2803 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2809 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2815 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2818 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2822 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2825 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2826 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2828 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2832 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2835 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2836 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2837 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2841 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2844 things if CDPATH is set.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2848 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2854 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2857 seems to make sense for the transition.
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2861 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2864 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2869 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2872 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2873 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2877 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2880 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2884 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2887 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2888 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2889 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2890 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2894 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2900 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2903 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2904 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2905 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2906 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2907 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2908 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2909 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2910 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2911 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2912 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2917 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2920 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2921 * README: mention doc/v2
2922 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2923 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2927 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2929 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2930 be using this script RSN.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2934 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2937 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2938 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2939 more than 1 init script.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2943 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2946 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2950 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Changed perl version detection.
2953 * Changed call to find.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2957 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2960 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2962 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2967 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Really include dh_installpam.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2973 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2976 * Wrote man page for same.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2980 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2983 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2984 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2989 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2996 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2999 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3000 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3001 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3002 x bit was being set!
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3006 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3009 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3010 well. (Closes: 38900)
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3014 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3017 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3018 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3022 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3028 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3035 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3041 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3044 help from Julian Gilbey.
3045 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3046 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3047 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3048 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3049 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3050 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3051 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3056 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3062 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3069 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3075 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3081 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3084 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3088 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3091 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3095 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3098 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3102 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3108 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3111 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3115 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3121 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3127 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3130 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3131 may be deleted. (#35845)
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3135 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * Various man page enhancements.
3138 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3143 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3146 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3147 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3151 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3154 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3155 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3156 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3158 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3159 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3164 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3170 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * Another very minor typo fix.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3176 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Very minor typo fix.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3182 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3185 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3186 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3190 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3196 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3199 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3200 variables properly (#34850).
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3204 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3210 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3213 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3214 (automatically generated by build process).
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3218 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3220 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3224 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3227 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3228 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3230 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3234 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3237 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3241 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * README: minor typo fix.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3247 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3250 leave it at that. :-)
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3254 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3260 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3266 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3269 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3270 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3271 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3275 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3278 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3282 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3285 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3289 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3292 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3293 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3294 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3295 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3299 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3302 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3303 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3304 Craig Small for spotting this.
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3308 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3311 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3312 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3316 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3322 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3325 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3329 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3331 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3332 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3333 working on the last version of debhelper.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3337 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3340 being made. (#23255)
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3344 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3350 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3353 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3357 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3360 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3361 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3362 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3363 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3367 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3370 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3371 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3372 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3373 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3375 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3376 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3378 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3383 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3389 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3395 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3398 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3399 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3400 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3401 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3402 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3403 suidregister actually supports it.
3404 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3405 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3409 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3416 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3419 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3420 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3421 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3422 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3423 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3424 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3425 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3429 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3431 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3432 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3436 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3439 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3440 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3441 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3442 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3446 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3449 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3451 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3452 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3453 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3454 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3455 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3456 effect, either. (#30118)
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3460 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3466 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3469 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3470 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3474 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3480 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3483 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3484 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3485 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3486 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3490 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3493 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3494 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3498 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3504 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3507 packages, painlessly.
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3511 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3517 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3523 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3529 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * The perl conversion is complete.
3533 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3535 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3536 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3537 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3542 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3545 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3546 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3547 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3551 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3554 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3556 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3558 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3559 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3563 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3566 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3567 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3571 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3577 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3580 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3581 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3582 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3583 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3584 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3588 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3591 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3592 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3593 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3594 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3598 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3601 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3605 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3608 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3609 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3610 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3611 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3612 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3613 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3614 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3615 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3619 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3625 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3628 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3629 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3630 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3635 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3638 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3642 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3645 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3649 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3652 sections of shared libraries.
3653 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3654 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3655 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3656 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3657 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3658 things you don't want them to.
3659 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3660 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3664 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3667 shared libraries. (#26414)
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3671 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3673 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3674 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3675 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3676 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3680 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3684 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3686 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3687 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3688 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3689 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3690 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3694 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3697 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3701 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3704 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3705 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3710 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3713 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3717 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3720 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3721 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3722 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3723 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3724 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3726 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3727 remove debian/files properly.
3728 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3729 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3730 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3731 * Removed bogus menu file.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3735 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3738 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3742 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3745 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3746 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3747 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3748 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3749 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3750 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3754 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3757 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3758 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3759 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3760 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3764 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3771 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3774 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3775 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3777 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3778 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3779 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3780 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3781 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3782 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3786 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3789 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3790 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3791 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3792 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3793 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3794 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3795 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3796 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3797 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3798 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3799 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3800 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3801 passed any switches.
3802 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3806 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3809 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3810 at all for a long while.
3811 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3812 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3813 large chunks in the process.
3814 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3815 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3816 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3821 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3824 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3826 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3831 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3834 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3835 that don't always have the same files in them.
3836 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3837 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3838 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3842 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3846 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3847 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3848 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3849 updating 27 man pages.
3850 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3851 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3852 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3853 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3854 programs act on. (#25247)
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3858 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3862 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3863 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3864 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3865 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3866 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3867 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3872 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3879 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3886 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3889 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3893 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3899 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3902 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3903 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3904 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3905 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3906 package by accident.
3907 * Is version 1.0 next?
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3911 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3914 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3915 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3919 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3922 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3923 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3924 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3925 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3926 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3928 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3933 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3936 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3937 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3941 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3944 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3948 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3951 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3952 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3957 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3963 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3966 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3967 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3972 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3978 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3981 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3982 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3983 past week. Thanks, guys!
3985 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3986 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3987 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3988 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3989 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3990 would do in the same situation.
3991 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3992 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3994 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3996 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3997 permissions changed.
3998 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3999 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4000 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4001 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4002 files are treated identically.
4003 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4004 * Minor man page fixes.
4005 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4006 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4007 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4011 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4014 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4015 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4016 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4017 use -X multiple times, too.
4018 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4019 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4023 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4026 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4027 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4031 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4034 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4038 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4041 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4042 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4043 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4044 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4045 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4046 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4047 shape if you're starting a new package.
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4051 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4054 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4058 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4061 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4062 because of missing symlinks.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4066 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4072 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4075 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4076 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4077 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4078 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4079 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4081 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4082 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4086 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4088 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4089 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4090 to be changed after the fact :-)
4091 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4095 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4097 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4098 no version string after the -V.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4102 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4104 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4105 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4110 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4113 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4117 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4120 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4121 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4122 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4123 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4124 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4125 I always welcome corrections!
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4129 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4135 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4138 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4139 * Documented this new switch.
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4143 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4146 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4147 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4148 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4149 no packages use the old behavior.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4153 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4156 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4157 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4161 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4164 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4168 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4174 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4177 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4181 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4184 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4185 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4186 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4190 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4196 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4199 into the source package by accident.
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4203 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4206 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4207 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4208 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4209 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4210 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4211 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4216 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4220 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4221 inspired to implement some of it.
4222 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4226 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4229 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4233 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4236 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4237 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4241 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4244 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4245 have done.) (#17598)
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4249 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4255 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4261 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4264 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4268 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4271 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4272 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4276 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4279 argument processor in perl.
4280 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4281 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4282 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4283 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4287 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4290 type directories. (#16933)
4291 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4292 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4293 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4294 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4295 are supported. (#16935)
4296 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4301 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4304 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4308 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4312 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4313 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4314 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4315 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4316 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4317 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4321 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4324 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4325 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4327 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4328 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4329 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4330 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4331 a given package, or -i or -a.
4332 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4333 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4334 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4335 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4336 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4337 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4338 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4339 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4340 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4342 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4343 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4344 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4348 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4351 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4352 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4357 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4360 does not have a section.
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4364 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4367 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4368 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4369 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4373 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Fixed typo #16215.
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4379 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4382 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4383 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4384 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4385 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4386 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4391 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4394 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4395 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4396 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4401 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4407 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4413 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4416 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4417 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4418 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4419 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4420 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4421 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4425 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4431 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4434 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4438 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4441 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4442 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4443 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4447 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4450 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4454 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4460 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4463 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4467 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4470 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4474 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4480 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4483 postinst, postrm, etc.
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4487 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4493 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4496 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4497 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4498 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4499 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4500 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4504 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4507 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4508 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4512 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4515 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4519 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4522 installing package files into.
4523 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4528 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4532 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4536 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4538 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4542 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4545 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4549 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4552 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4553 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4554 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4555 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4559 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4561 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4562 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4563 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4564 multiple binary packages.
4565 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4566 should rebuild them with this version.
4567 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4571 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4574 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4578 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4581 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4585 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4588 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4589 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4590 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4591 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4592 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4593 debian/README.debian.
4594 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4595 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4596 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4597 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4598 in a few situations.)
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4602 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4608 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4614 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4617 * Fixed several man pages.
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4621 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4624 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4625 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4629 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4632 is ready for general use.
4633 * Added man pages for all commands.
4634 * Multiple binary package support.
4635 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4636 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4637 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4639 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4640 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4641 auto-installed as parameters.
4642 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4644 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4647 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4648 the package build directory it is to act on.
4649 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4650 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4651 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4655 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4657 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4658 ready to replace debstd.
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400