1 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
4 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
5 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
6 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
7 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
8 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
9 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
10 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
11 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
12 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
13 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
14 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
15 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
16 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
17 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
18 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
23 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
29 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
32 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
33 * fixed dh_testdir man page
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
37 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Typo, Closes: #122679
40 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
41 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
45 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
51 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
54 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
55 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
56 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
57 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
58 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
63 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
65 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
69 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
72 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
76 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
79 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
84 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Typo, Closes: #114135
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
90 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
93 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
97 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
103 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
107 Also some indentation fixes.
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
111 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
114 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
115 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
116 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
117 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
118 Closes: #106514, #85520
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
122 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Typo, Closes: #104405
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
128 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
134 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
136 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
140 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
146 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
152 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
155 change it in debhelper v4..
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
159 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
165 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
168 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
172 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
175 is not essential. Closes: #100430
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
179 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
185 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
188 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
189 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
190 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
191 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
192 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
193 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
194 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
195 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
196 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
197 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
198 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
199 prefixed with ".debhelper")
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
203 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
206 look just like shared libs, but are not.
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
210 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
217 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
220 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
221 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
222 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
223 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
224 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
225 program those options go to. So, for example,
226 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
227 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
228 something complex. Closes: #89311
229 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
233 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
236 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
237 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
238 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
242 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
245 through loop. Closes: #98598
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
249 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Missing semi-colon.
252 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
253 this (dh_* should be called, really).
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
257 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
260 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
261 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
262 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
266 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
269 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
270 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
274 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
277 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
281 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
284 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
285 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
289 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
292 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
293 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
294 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
298 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
301 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
302 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
303 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
307 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
310 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
314 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
320 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Typo, Closes: #92407
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
326 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
332 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
338 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
341 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
345 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
347 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
348 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
349 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
350 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
351 followed. Closes: #85483
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
355 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
357 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
358 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
359 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
363 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
366 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
367 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
368 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
369 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
370 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
371 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
372 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
373 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
374 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
375 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
376 Closes: #88464, #77743
377 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
378 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
379 us to deal with that gracefully.
380 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
382 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
383 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
384 a while, Closes: #51225
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
388 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
394 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
397 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
401 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
405 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
410 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
413 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
414 don't make packlist files.
415 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
416 debhelper coding standards.
417 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
418 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
422 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
425 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
429 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
432 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
433 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
434 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
435 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
436 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
437 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
438 but is mildly deprecated.
439 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
440 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
441 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
442 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
443 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
444 switching to statoverrides..
445 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
446 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
447 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
448 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
449 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
450 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
452 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
453 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
454 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
455 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
456 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
457 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
458 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
459 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
460 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
462 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
463 variable names, pod man pages).
464 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
465 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
466 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
467 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
468 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
469 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
470 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
474 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
480 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
487 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
490 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
494 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
496 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
497 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
498 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
502 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
504 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
505 they were previously ignored.
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
509 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
511 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
512 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
516 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
518 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
519 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
520 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
524 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
526 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
530 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
532 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
533 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
537 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
539 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
540 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
541 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
542 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
543 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
544 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
545 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
546 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
547 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
548 it is an obsolete program.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
552 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
554 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
558 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
562 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
564 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
568 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
570 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
572 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
574 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
578 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
584 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
586 * typo: Closes, #78567
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
590 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
596 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
602 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
604 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
605 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
606 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
607 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
608 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
609 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
613 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
616 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
621 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
624 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
625 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
626 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
627 backwards-compatability.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
631 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
633 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
634 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
635 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
636 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
637 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
638 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
639 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
641 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
642 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
643 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
645 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
647 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
648 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
649 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
650 should now be raised to severity important..
651 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
652 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
656 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
659 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
664 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Typo, Closes: #77441
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
670 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Completed the fix from the last version.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
676 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
682 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
684 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
689 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
692 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
693 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
694 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
695 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
699 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
705 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
708 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
709 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
710 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
711 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
712 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
713 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
718 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
721 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
725 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
731 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
734 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
739 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
742 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
743 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
744 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
745 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
749 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
753 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
756 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
759 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
760 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
763 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
765 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
766 the TODO entry about it.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
770 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
777 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
780 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
781 prevent that. Closes: #73052
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
785 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Typo, Closes: #72932
788 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
789 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
790 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
791 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
795 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
801 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
808 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
811 (this appears to be logal).
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
815 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
818 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
819 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
820 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
821 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
825 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
831 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
833 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
834 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
835 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
836 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
837 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
841 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
847 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
850 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
854 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
861 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
864 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
865 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
866 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
871 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
878 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
884 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
886 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
887 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
888 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
889 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
890 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
891 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
892 notice until v2 is complete.
893 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
894 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
895 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
896 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
897 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
898 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
900 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
901 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
902 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
903 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
907 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
913 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
920 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
923 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
927 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
934 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
937 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
938 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
939 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
940 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
945 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
948 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
949 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
950 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
955 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
958 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
959 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
963 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
966 just skip files that end in -\d+.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
970 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
973 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
977 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
984 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
986 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
987 depend on the build and install targets.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
991 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
994 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
998 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1005 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1011 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1017 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1020 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1021 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1022 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1023 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1024 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1025 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1027 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1028 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1029 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1030 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1031 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1032 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1033 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1037 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1043 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1049 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1052 right place. Closes: #55065
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1056 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1063 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1066 * Copyright date updates.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1070 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1073 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1078 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1084 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1091 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1097 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1103 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1109 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1112 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1113 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1114 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1115 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1116 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1117 bits until all files have been registered.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1121 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_installmanpages:
1124 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1125 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1126 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1127 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1128 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1129 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1130 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1131 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1132 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1133 otherwise change the result at all.
1135 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1136 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1137 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1138 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1139 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1144 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1150 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1153 act on files that don't exist.
1154 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1155 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1156 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1158 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1159 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1160 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1161 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1165 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1171 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1177 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1180 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1184 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1187 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1189 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1190 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1191 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1195 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1198 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1199 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1200 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1201 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1202 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1203 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1204 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1206 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1208 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1212 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1219 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1225 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1231 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1234 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1238 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1244 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1250 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1253 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1254 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1255 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1256 I made some changes, though:
1257 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1258 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1259 that is a clear violation of policy.
1260 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1261 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1262 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1263 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1264 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1265 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1266 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1267 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1268 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1270 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1274 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1280 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1283 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1287 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1290 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1291 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1296 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1302 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1309 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1312 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1313 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1314 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1315 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1316 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1317 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1318 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1322 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1328 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1332 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1333 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1337 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1343 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1346 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1350 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1353 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1354 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1358 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1360 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1365 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1369 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1373 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1376 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1377 for the dependancies to be generated.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1381 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1384 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1388 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1391 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1392 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1393 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1398 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1401 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1402 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1406 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1412 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1418 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1421 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1425 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1431 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1434 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1435 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1436 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1437 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1438 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1439 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1440 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1441 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1442 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1443 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1444 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1445 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1449 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1452 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1453 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1455 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1456 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1457 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1458 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1459 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1460 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1462 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1463 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1467 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1470 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1474 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1481 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1484 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1492 for building debhelper.
1493 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1507 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1511 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1514 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1515 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1516 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1517 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1518 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1519 it's always available.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1523 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1526 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1527 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1528 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1532 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1535 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1536 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1540 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1546 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1549 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1553 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1559 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1562 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1563 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1564 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1568 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1571 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1576 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1579 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1580 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1582 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1583 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1587 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1593 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1599 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1602 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1606 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1609 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1610 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1612 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1616 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1619 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1620 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1621 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1625 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1628 things if CDPATH is set.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1632 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1638 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1641 seems to make sense for the transition.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1645 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1648 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1653 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1656 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1657 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1661 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1664 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1668 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1671 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1672 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1673 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1674 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1678 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1684 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1687 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1688 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1689 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1690 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1691 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1692 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1693 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1694 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1695 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1696 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1701 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1704 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1705 * README: mention doc/v2
1706 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1707 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1711 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1713 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1714 be using this script RSN.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1718 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1721 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1722 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1723 more than 1 init script.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1727 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1730 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1734 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Changed perl version detection.
1737 * Changed call to find.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1741 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1744 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1746 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1751 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Really include dh_installpam.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1757 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1760 * Wrote man page for same.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1764 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1767 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1768 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1773 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1780 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1783 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1784 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1785 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1786 x bit was being set!
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1790 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1793 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1794 well. (Closes: 38900)
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1798 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1801 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1802 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1806 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1812 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1819 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1825 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1828 help from Julian Gilbey.
1829 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1830 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1831 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1832 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1833 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1834 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1835 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1840 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1846 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1853 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1859 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1865 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1868 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1872 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1875 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1879 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1882 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1886 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1892 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1895 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1899 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1905 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1911 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1914 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1915 may be deleted. (#35845)
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1919 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Various man page enhancements.
1922 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1927 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1930 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1931 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1935 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1938 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1939 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1940 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1942 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1943 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1948 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1954 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Another very minor typo fix.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1960 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * Very minor typo fix.
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1966 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1969 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1970 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1974 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1980 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1983 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1984 variables properly (#34850).
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1988 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1994 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1997 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1998 (automatically generated by build process).
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2002 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2004 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2008 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2011 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2012 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2014 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2018 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2021 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2025 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * README: minor typo fix.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2031 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2034 leave it at that. :-)
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2038 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2044 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2050 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2053 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2054 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2055 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2059 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2062 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2066 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2069 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2073 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2076 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2077 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2078 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2079 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2083 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2086 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2087 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2088 Craig Small for spotting this.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2092 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2095 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2096 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2100 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2106 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2109 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2113 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2115 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2116 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2117 working on the last version of debhelper.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2121 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2124 being made. (#23255)
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2128 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2134 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2137 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2141 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2144 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2145 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2146 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2147 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2151 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2154 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2155 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2156 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2157 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2159 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2160 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2162 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2167 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2173 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2179 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2182 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2183 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2184 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2185 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2186 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2187 suidregister actually supports it.
2188 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2189 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2193 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2200 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2203 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2204 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2205 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2206 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2207 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2208 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2209 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2213 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2215 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2216 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2220 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2223 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2224 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2225 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2226 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2230 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2233 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2235 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2236 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2237 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2238 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2239 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2240 effect, either. (#30118)
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2244 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2250 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2253 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2254 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2258 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2264 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2267 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2268 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2269 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2270 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2274 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2277 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2278 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2282 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2288 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2291 packages, painlessly.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2295 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2301 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2307 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2313 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * The perl conversion is complete.
2317 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2319 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2320 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2321 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2326 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2329 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2330 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2331 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2335 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2338 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2340 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2342 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2343 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2347 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2350 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2351 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2355 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2361 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2364 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2365 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2366 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2367 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2368 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2372 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2375 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2376 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2377 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2378 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2382 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2385 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2389 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2392 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2393 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2394 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2395 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2396 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2397 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2398 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2399 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2403 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2409 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2412 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2413 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2414 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2419 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2422 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2426 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2429 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2433 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2436 sections of shared libraries.
2437 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2438 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2439 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2440 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2441 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2442 things you don't want them to.
2443 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2444 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2448 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2451 shared libraries. (#26414)
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2455 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2457 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2458 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2459 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2460 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2464 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2468 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2470 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2471 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2472 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2473 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2474 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2478 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2481 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2485 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2488 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2489 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2494 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2497 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2501 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2504 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2505 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2506 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2507 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2508 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2510 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2511 remove debian/files properly.
2512 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2513 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2514 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2515 * Removed bogus menu file.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2519 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2522 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2526 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2529 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2530 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2531 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2532 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2533 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2534 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2538 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2541 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2542 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2543 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2544 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2548 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2555 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2558 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2559 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2561 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2562 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2563 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2564 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2565 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2566 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2570 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2573 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2574 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2575 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2576 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2577 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2578 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2579 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2580 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2581 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2582 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2583 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2584 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2585 passed any switches.
2586 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2590 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2593 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2594 at all for a long while.
2595 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2596 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2597 large chunks in the process.
2598 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2599 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2600 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2605 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2608 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2610 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2615 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2618 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2619 that don't always have the same files in them.
2620 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2621 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2622 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2626 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2630 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2631 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2632 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2633 updating 27 man pages.
2634 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2635 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2636 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2637 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2638 programs act on. (#25247)
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2642 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2646 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2647 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2648 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2649 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2650 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2651 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2656 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2663 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2670 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2673 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2677 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2683 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2686 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2687 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2688 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2689 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2690 package by accident.
2691 * Is version 1.0 next?
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2695 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2698 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2699 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2703 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2706 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2707 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2708 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2709 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2710 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2712 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2717 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2720 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2721 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2725 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2728 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2732 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2735 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2736 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2741 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2747 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2750 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2751 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2756 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2762 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2765 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2766 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2767 past week. Thanks, guys!
2769 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2770 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2771 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2772 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2773 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2774 would do in the same situation.
2775 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2776 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2778 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2780 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2781 permissions changed.
2782 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2783 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2784 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2785 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2786 files are treated identically.
2787 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2788 * Minor man page fixes.
2789 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2790 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2791 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2795 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2798 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2799 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2800 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2801 use -X multiple times, too.
2802 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2803 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2807 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2810 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2811 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2815 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2818 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2822 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2825 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2826 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2827 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2828 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2829 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2830 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2831 shape if you're starting a new package.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2835 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2838 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2842 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2845 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2846 because of missing symlinks.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2850 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2856 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2859 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2860 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2861 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2862 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2863 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2865 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2866 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2870 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2872 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2873 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2874 to be changed after the fact :-)
2875 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2879 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2882 no version string after the -V.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2886 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2888 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2889 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2894 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2897 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2901 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2904 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2905 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2906 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2907 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2908 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2909 I always welcome corrections!
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2913 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2919 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2922 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2923 * Documented this new switch.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2927 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2930 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2931 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2932 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2933 no packages use the old behavior.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2937 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2940 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2941 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2945 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2948 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2952 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2958 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2961 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2965 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2968 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2969 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2970 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2974 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2980 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2983 into the source package by accident.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2987 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2990 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2991 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2992 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2993 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2994 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2995 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3000 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3004 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3005 inspired to implement some of it.
3006 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3010 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3013 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3017 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3020 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3021 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3025 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3028 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3029 have done.) (#17598)
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3033 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3039 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3045 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3048 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3052 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3055 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3056 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3060 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3063 argument processor in perl.
3064 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3065 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3066 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3067 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3071 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3074 type directories. (#16933)
3075 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3076 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3077 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3078 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3079 are supported. (#16935)
3080 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3085 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3088 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3092 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3096 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3097 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3098 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3099 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3100 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3101 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3105 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3108 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3109 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3111 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3112 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3113 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3114 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3115 a given package, or -i or -a.
3116 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3117 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3118 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3119 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3120 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3121 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3122 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3123 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3124 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3126 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3127 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3128 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3132 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3135 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3136 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3141 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3144 does not have a section.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3148 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3151 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3152 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3153 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3157 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * Fixed typo #16215.
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3163 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3166 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3167 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3168 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3169 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3170 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3175 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3178 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3179 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3180 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3185 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3191 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3197 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3200 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3201 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3202 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3203 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3204 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3205 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3209 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3215 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3218 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3222 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3225 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3226 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3227 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3231 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3234 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3238 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3244 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3247 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3251 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3254 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3258 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3264 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3267 postinst, postrm, etc.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3271 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3277 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3280 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3281 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3282 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3283 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3284 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3288 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3291 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3292 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3296 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3299 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3303 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3306 installing package files into.
3307 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3312 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3316 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3320 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3326 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3329 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3333 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3336 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3337 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3338 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3339 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3343 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3345 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3346 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3347 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3348 multiple binary packages.
3349 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3350 should rebuild them with this version.
3351 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3355 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3358 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3362 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3365 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3369 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3372 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3373 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3374 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3375 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3376 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3377 debian/README.debian.
3378 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3379 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3380 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3381 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3382 in a few situations.)
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3386 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3392 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3398 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3401 * Fixed several man pages.
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3405 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3408 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3409 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3413 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3416 is ready for general use.
3417 * Added man pages for all commands.
3418 * Multiple binary package support.
3419 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3420 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3421 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3423 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3424 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3425 auto-installed as parameters.
3426 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3428 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3431 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3432 the package build directory it is to act on.
3433 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3434 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3435 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3439 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3441 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3442 ready to replace debstd.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400