1 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
8 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
15 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
18 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
22 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
25 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
29 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
32 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
35 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
36 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
40 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
46 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
49 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
53 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
56 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
57 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
58 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
60 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
62 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
63 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
64 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
68 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
71 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
76 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
79 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
80 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
81 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
86 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
92 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
98 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
101 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
102 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
103 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
104 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
105 associated -dbg packages.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
109 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
111 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
112 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
116 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
119 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
123 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
126 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
130 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
133 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
138 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Typo. Closes: #207999
141 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
145 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
148 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
153 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
155 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
156 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
160 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
164 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
165 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
166 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
167 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
168 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
169 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
170 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
171 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
172 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
173 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
177 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
180 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
185 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
188 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
189 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
193 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
196 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
197 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
202 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
205 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
209 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
212 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
216 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
219 out section number. Closes: #204731
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
223 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
230 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
236 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
242 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Typo, Closes: #203907
245 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
246 removal. Closes: #204286
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
250 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
253 renaming. Closes: #203548
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
257 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
260 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
261 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
265 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
271 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
277 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
283 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
286 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
287 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
288 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
292 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
295 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
296 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
300 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
306 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
313 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
316 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
321 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
324 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
328 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
331 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
333 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
334 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
338 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
341 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
346 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
349 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
353 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
359 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
361 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
365 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
368 it break hard links (see #188663).
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
372 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
375 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
379 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
385 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
389 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
390 debconf-mergetemplates
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
394 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
397 pod2man. Closes: #184013
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
401 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
404 * Typo, Closes: #183267
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
408 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
411 * Update debhelper(1).
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
415 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
417 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
418 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
419 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
420 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
421 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
422 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
426 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
429 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
430 the shell. Closes: #178524
431 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
435 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
438 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
442 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
445 undocumented.7 links anymore.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
449 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
451 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
452 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
453 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
454 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
455 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
460 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
463 files from installation.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
467 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
470 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
471 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
475 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
478 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
482 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
484 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
485 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
489 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
495 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
501 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
505 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
506 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
508 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
512 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
515 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
516 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
517 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
518 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
522 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
524 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
525 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
529 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
532 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
533 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
537 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
541 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
546 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
552 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
556 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
557 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
558 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
563 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
566 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
567 practice. Closes: #163303
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
571 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
577 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
584 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
586 * The "reverse hangover" release.
587 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
589 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
590 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
591 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
592 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
593 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
597 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
600 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
605 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
611 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
618 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
621 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
626 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
632 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
638 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
644 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
651 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
654 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
655 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
656 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
657 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
662 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Typo, Closes: #155323
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
668 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
675 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
678 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
679 * Removed dh_installxaw.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
683 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
686 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
687 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
688 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
689 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
690 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
694 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
697 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
699 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
704 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
706 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
707 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
711 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
714 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
715 right thing. Closes: #150644
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
719 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
726 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
728 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
733 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
736 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
737 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
742 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
748 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
751 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
755 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
758 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
759 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
764 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
767 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
771 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
777 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
780 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
781 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
785 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
791 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Removing perl warning message.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
797 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
800 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
801 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
802 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
803 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
804 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
805 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
806 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
807 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
811 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
817 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
824 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
827 debconf-mergetemplate.
828 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
829 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
833 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
836 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
837 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
838 dh_install, which ...
839 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
840 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
841 mess, as it uses debian/install.
842 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
843 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
844 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
845 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
846 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
847 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
848 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
849 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
850 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
851 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
852 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
854 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
855 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
856 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
857 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
858 course there's -X ..)
859 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
860 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
861 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
863 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
864 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
865 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
866 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
867 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
872 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
878 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Typo, Closes: #139176
881 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
885 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
891 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
897 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
903 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
909 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
912 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
913 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
914 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
915 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
917 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
918 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
922 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
928 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Typo, Closes: #132454
931 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
935 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
938 upset. Closes: #131322
940 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
942 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
945 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
946 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
947 line, as well as in debian/rules.
948 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
949 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
950 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
951 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
952 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
953 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
954 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
955 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
956 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
957 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
958 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
959 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
961 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
965 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
968 - Better indenting of generated code.
969 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
973 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
977 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
978 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
979 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
980 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
981 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
982 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
983 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
987 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
990 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
994 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
997 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
998 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
999 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1000 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1001 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1002 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1003 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1004 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1005 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1006 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1007 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1008 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1009 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1010 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1011 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1016 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1022 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1025 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1026 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1030 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1033 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1034 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1038 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1044 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1047 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1048 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1049 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1050 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1051 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1056 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1062 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1065 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1069 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1072 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1077 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1083 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1086 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1090 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1096 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1100 Also some indentation fixes.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1104 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1107 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1108 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1109 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1110 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1111 Closes: #106514, #85520
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1115 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1121 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1127 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1133 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1139 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1145 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1148 change it in debhelper v4..
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1152 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1158 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1161 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1165 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1168 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1172 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1178 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1181 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1182 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1183 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1184 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1185 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1186 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1187 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1188 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1189 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1190 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1191 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1192 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1196 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1199 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1203 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1210 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1213 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1214 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1215 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1216 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1217 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1218 program those options go to. So, for example,
1219 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1220 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1221 something complex. Closes: #89311
1222 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1226 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1229 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1230 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1231 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1235 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1238 through loop. Closes: #98598
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1242 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Missing semi-colon.
1245 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1246 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1250 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1253 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1254 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1255 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1259 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1262 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1263 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1267 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1270 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1274 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1277 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1278 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1282 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1285 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1286 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1287 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1291 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1294 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1295 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1296 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1300 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1303 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1307 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1313 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1319 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1325 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1331 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1334 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1338 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1341 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1342 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1343 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1344 followed. Closes: #85483
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1348 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1350 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1351 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1352 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1356 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1359 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1360 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1361 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1362 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1363 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1364 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1365 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1366 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1367 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1368 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1369 Closes: #88464, #77743
1370 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1371 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1372 us to deal with that gracefully.
1373 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1375 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1376 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1377 a while, Closes: #51225
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1381 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1387 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1390 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1394 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1398 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1403 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1406 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1407 don't make packlist files.
1408 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1409 debhelper coding standards.
1410 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1411 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1415 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1418 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1422 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1425 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1426 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1427 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1428 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1429 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1430 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1431 but is mildly deprecated.
1432 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1433 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1434 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1435 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1436 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1437 switching to statoverrides..
1438 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1439 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1440 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1441 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1442 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1443 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1445 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1446 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1447 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1448 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1449 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1450 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1451 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1452 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1453 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1455 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1456 variable names, pod man pages).
1457 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1458 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1459 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1460 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1461 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1462 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1463 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1467 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1473 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1480 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1483 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1487 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1489 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1490 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1491 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1495 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1497 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1498 they were previously ignored.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1502 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1504 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1505 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1509 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1511 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1512 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1513 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1517 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1519 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1523 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1525 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1526 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1530 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1532 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1533 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1534 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1535 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1536 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1537 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1538 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1539 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1540 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1541 it is an obsolete program.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1545 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1547 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1551 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1555 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1557 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1561 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1563 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1565 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1567 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1571 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1577 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * typo: Closes, #78567
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1583 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1589 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1595 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1598 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1599 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1600 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1601 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1602 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1606 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1609 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1614 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1617 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1618 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1619 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1620 backwards-compatability.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1624 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1627 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1628 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1629 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1630 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1631 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1632 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1634 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1635 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1636 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1638 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1640 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1641 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1642 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1643 should now be raised to severity important..
1644 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1645 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1649 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1652 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1657 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1663 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1669 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1675 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1682 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1685 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1686 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1687 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1688 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1692 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1698 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1701 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1702 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1703 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1704 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1705 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1706 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1711 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1714 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1718 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1724 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1727 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1732 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1735 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1736 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1737 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1738 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1742 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1746 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1749 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1752 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1753 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1756 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1758 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1759 the TODO entry about it.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1763 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1770 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1773 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1774 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1778 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1781 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1782 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1783 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1784 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1788 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1794 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1801 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1804 (this appears to be logal).
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1808 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1811 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1812 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1813 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1814 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1818 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1824 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1827 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1828 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1829 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1830 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1834 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1840 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1843 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1847 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1854 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1857 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1858 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1859 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1864 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1871 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1880 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1881 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1882 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1883 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1884 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1885 notice until v2 is complete.
1886 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1887 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1888 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1889 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1890 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1891 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1893 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1894 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1895 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1896 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1900 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1913 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1916 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1920 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1927 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1930 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1931 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1932 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1933 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1938 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1941 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1942 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1943 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1948 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1951 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1952 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1956 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1959 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1963 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1966 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1970 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1977 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1980 depend on the build and install targets.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1984 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1987 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1991 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1998 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2004 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2010 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2013 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2014 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2015 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2016 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2017 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2018 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2020 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2021 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2022 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2023 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2024 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2025 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2026 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2030 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2036 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2042 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2045 right place. Closes: #55065
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2049 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2056 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2059 * Copyright date updates.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2063 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2066 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2071 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2077 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2084 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2090 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2096 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2102 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2105 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2106 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2107 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2108 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2109 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2110 bits until all files have been registered.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2114 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_installmanpages:
2117 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2118 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2119 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2120 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2121 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2122 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2123 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2124 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2125 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2126 otherwise change the result at all.
2128 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2129 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2130 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2131 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2132 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2137 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2143 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2146 act on files that don't exist.
2147 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2148 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2149 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2151 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2152 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2153 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2154 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2158 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2164 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2170 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2173 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2177 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2180 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2182 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2183 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2184 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2188 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2191 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2192 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2193 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2194 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2195 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2196 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2197 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2199 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2201 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2205 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2212 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2218 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2224 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2227 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2231 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2237 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2243 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2246 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2247 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2248 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2249 I made some changes, though:
2250 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2251 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2252 that is a clear violation of policy.
2253 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2254 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2255 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2256 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2257 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2258 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2259 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2260 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2261 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2263 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2267 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2273 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2276 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2280 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2283 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2284 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2289 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2295 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2302 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2305 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2306 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2307 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2308 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2309 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2310 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2311 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2315 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2321 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2325 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2326 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2330 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2336 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2339 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2343 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2346 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2347 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2351 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2353 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2358 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2362 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2366 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2369 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2370 for the dependancies to be generated.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2374 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2377 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2381 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2384 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2385 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2386 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2391 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2394 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2395 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2399 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2405 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2411 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2414 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2418 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2424 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2427 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2428 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2429 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2430 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2431 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2432 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2433 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2434 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2435 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2436 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2437 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2438 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2442 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2445 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2446 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2448 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2449 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2450 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2451 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2452 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2453 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2455 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2456 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2460 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2463 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2467 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2474 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2477 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2482 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2485 for building debhelper.
2486 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2490 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2497 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2500 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2504 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2507 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2508 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2509 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2510 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2511 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2512 it's always available.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2516 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2519 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2520 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2521 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2525 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2528 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2529 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2533 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2539 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2542 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2546 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2552 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2555 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2556 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2557 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2561 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2564 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2569 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2572 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2573 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2575 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2576 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2580 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2586 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2592 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2595 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2599 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2602 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2603 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2605 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2609 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2612 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2613 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2614 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2618 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2621 things if CDPATH is set.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2625 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2631 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2634 seems to make sense for the transition.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2638 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2641 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2646 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2649 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2650 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2654 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2657 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2661 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2664 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2665 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2666 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2667 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2671 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2677 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2680 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2681 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2682 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2683 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2684 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2685 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2686 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2687 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2688 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2689 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2694 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2697 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2698 * README: mention doc/v2
2699 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2700 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2704 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2706 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2707 be using this script RSN.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2711 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2714 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2715 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2716 more than 1 init script.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2720 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2723 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2727 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Changed perl version detection.
2730 * Changed call to find.
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2734 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2737 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2739 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2744 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * Really include dh_installpam.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2750 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2753 * Wrote man page for same.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2757 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2760 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2761 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2766 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2773 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2776 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2777 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2778 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2779 x bit was being set!
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2783 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2786 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2787 well. (Closes: 38900)
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2791 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2794 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2795 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2799 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2805 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2812 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2818 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2821 help from Julian Gilbey.
2822 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2823 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2824 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2825 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2826 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2827 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2828 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2833 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2839 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2846 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2852 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2858 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2861 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2865 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2868 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2872 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2875 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2879 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2885 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2888 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2892 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2898 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2904 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2907 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2908 may be deleted. (#35845)
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2912 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Various man page enhancements.
2915 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2920 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2923 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2924 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2928 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2931 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2932 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2933 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2935 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2936 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2941 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2947 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Another very minor typo fix.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2953 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * Very minor typo fix.
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2959 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2962 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2963 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2967 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2973 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2976 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2977 variables properly (#34850).
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2981 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2987 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2990 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2991 (automatically generated by build process).
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2995 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2997 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3001 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3004 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3005 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3007 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3011 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3014 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3018 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * README: minor typo fix.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3024 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3027 leave it at that. :-)
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3031 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3037 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3043 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3046 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3047 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3048 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3052 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3055 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3059 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3062 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3066 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3069 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3070 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3071 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3072 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3076 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3079 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3080 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3081 Craig Small for spotting this.
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3085 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3088 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3089 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3093 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3099 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3102 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3106 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3108 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3109 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3110 working on the last version of debhelper.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3114 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3117 being made. (#23255)
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3121 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3127 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3130 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3134 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3137 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3138 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3139 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3140 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3144 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3147 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3148 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3149 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3150 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3152 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3153 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3155 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3160 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3166 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3172 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3175 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3176 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3177 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3178 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3179 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3180 suidregister actually supports it.
3181 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3182 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3186 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3193 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3196 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3197 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3198 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3199 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3200 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3201 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3202 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3206 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3208 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3209 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3213 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3216 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3217 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3218 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3219 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3223 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3226 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3228 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3229 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3230 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3231 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3232 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3233 effect, either. (#30118)
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3237 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3243 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3246 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3247 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3251 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3257 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3260 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3261 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3262 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3263 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3267 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3270 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3271 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3275 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3281 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3284 packages, painlessly.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3288 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3294 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3300 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3306 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * The perl conversion is complete.
3310 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3312 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3313 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3314 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3319 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3322 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3323 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3324 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3328 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3331 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3333 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3335 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3336 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3340 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3343 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3344 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3348 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3354 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3357 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3358 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3359 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3360 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3361 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3365 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3368 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3369 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3370 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3371 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3375 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3378 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3382 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3385 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3386 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3387 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3388 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3389 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3390 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3391 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3392 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3396 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3402 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3405 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3406 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3407 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3412 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3415 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3419 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3422 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3426 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3429 sections of shared libraries.
3430 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3431 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3432 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3433 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3434 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3435 things you don't want them to.
3436 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3437 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3441 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3444 shared libraries. (#26414)
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3448 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3450 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3451 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3452 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3453 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3457 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3461 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3463 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3464 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3465 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3466 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3467 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3471 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3474 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3478 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3481 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3482 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3487 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3490 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3494 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3497 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3498 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3499 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3500 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3501 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3503 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3504 remove debian/files properly.
3505 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3506 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3507 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3508 * Removed bogus menu file.
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3512 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3515 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3519 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3522 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3523 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3524 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3525 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3526 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3527 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3531 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3534 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3535 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3536 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3537 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3541 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3548 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3551 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3552 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3554 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3555 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3556 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3557 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3558 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3559 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3563 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3566 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3567 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3568 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3569 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3570 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3571 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3572 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3573 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3574 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3575 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3576 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3577 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3578 passed any switches.
3579 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3583 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3586 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3587 at all for a long while.
3588 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3589 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3590 large chunks in the process.
3591 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3592 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3593 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3598 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3601 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3603 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3608 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3611 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3612 that don't always have the same files in them.
3613 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3614 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3615 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3619 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3623 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3624 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3625 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3626 updating 27 man pages.
3627 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3628 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3629 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3630 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3631 programs act on. (#25247)
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3635 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3639 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3640 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3641 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3642 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3643 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3644 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3649 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3656 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3663 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3666 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3670 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3676 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3679 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3680 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3681 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3682 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3683 package by accident.
3684 * Is version 1.0 next?
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3688 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3691 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3692 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3696 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3699 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3700 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3701 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3702 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3703 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3705 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3710 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3713 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3714 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3718 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3721 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3725 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3728 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3729 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3734 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3740 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3743 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3744 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3749 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3755 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3758 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3759 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3760 past week. Thanks, guys!
3762 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3763 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3764 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3765 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3766 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3767 would do in the same situation.
3768 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3769 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3771 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3773 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3774 permissions changed.
3775 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3776 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3777 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3778 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3779 files are treated identically.
3780 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3781 * Minor man page fixes.
3782 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3783 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3784 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3788 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3791 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3792 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3793 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3794 use -X multiple times, too.
3795 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3796 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3800 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3803 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3804 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3808 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3811 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3815 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3818 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3819 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3820 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3821 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3822 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3823 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3824 shape if you're starting a new package.
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3828 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3831 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3835 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3838 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3839 because of missing symlinks.
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3843 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3849 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3852 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3853 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3854 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3855 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3856 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3858 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3859 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3863 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3865 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3866 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3867 to be changed after the fact :-)
3868 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3872 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3874 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3875 no version string after the -V.
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3879 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3881 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3882 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3887 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3890 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3894 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3897 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3898 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3899 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3900 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3901 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3902 I always welcome corrections!
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3906 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3912 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3915 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3916 * Documented this new switch.
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3920 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3923 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3924 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3925 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3926 no packages use the old behavior.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3930 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3933 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3934 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3938 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3941 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3945 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3951 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3954 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3958 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3961 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3962 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3963 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3967 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3973 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3976 into the source package by accident.
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3980 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3983 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3984 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3985 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3986 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3987 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3988 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3993 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3997 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3998 inspired to implement some of it.
3999 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4003 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4006 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4010 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4013 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4014 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4018 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4021 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4022 have done.) (#17598)
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4026 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4032 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4038 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4041 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4045 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4048 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4049 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4053 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4056 argument processor in perl.
4057 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4058 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4059 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4060 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4064 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4067 type directories. (#16933)
4068 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4069 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4070 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4071 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4072 are supported. (#16935)
4073 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4078 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4081 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4085 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4089 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4090 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4091 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4092 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4093 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4094 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4098 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4101 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4102 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4104 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4105 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4106 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4107 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4108 a given package, or -i or -a.
4109 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4110 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4111 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4112 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4113 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4114 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4115 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4116 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4117 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4119 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4120 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4121 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4125 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4128 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4129 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4134 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4137 does not have a section.
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4141 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4144 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4145 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4146 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4150 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Fixed typo #16215.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4156 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4159 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4160 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4161 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4162 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4163 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4168 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4171 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4172 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4173 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4178 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4184 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4190 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4193 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4194 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4195 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4196 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4197 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4198 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4202 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4208 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4211 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4215 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4218 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4219 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4220 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4224 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4227 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4231 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4237 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4240 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4244 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4247 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4251 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4257 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4260 postinst, postrm, etc.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4264 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4270 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4273 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4274 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4275 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4276 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4277 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4281 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4284 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4285 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4289 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4292 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4296 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4299 installing package files into.
4300 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4305 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4309 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4313 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4319 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4322 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4326 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4329 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4330 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4331 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4332 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4336 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4338 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4339 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4340 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4341 multiple binary packages.
4342 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4343 should rebuild them with this version.
4344 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4348 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4351 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4355 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4358 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4362 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4364 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4365 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4366 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4367 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4368 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4369 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4370 debian/README.debian.
4371 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4372 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4373 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4374 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4375 in a few situations.)
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4379 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4385 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4391 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4394 * Fixed several man pages.
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4398 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4401 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4402 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4406 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4409 is ready for general use.
4410 * Added man pages for all commands.
4411 * Multiple binary package support.
4412 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4413 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4414 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4416 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4417 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4418 auto-installed as parameters.
4419 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4421 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4424 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4425 the package build directory it is to act on.
4426 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4427 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4428 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4432 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4434 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4435 ready to replace debstd.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400