1 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
3 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
4 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
5 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
6 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
7 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
8 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
12 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
14 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
15 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
16 the shell. Closes: #178524
17 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
21 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
24 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
28 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
31 undocumented.7 links anymore.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
35 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
37 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
38 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
39 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
40 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
41 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
46 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
49 files from installation.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
53 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
56 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
57 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
61 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
64 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
68 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
71 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
75 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
81 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
87 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
91 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
92 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
94 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
98 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
101 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
102 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
103 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
104 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
108 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
110 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
111 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
115 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
118 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
119 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
123 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
127 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
132 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
138 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
142 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
143 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
144 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
149 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
152 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
153 practice. Closes: #163303
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
157 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
163 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
170 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
172 * The "reverse hangover" release.
173 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
175 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
176 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
177 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
178 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
179 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
183 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
186 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
191 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
197 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
204 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
207 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
212 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
218 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
224 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
230 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
237 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
240 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
241 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
242 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
243 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
248 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Typo, Closes: #155323
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
254 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
261 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
264 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
265 * Removed dh_installxaw.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
269 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
272 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
273 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
274 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
275 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
276 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
280 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
282 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
283 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
285 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
290 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
292 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
293 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
297 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
300 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
301 right thing. Closes: #150644
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
305 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
312 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
314 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
319 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
322 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
323 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
328 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
334 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
336 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
337 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
341 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
344 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
345 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
350 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
353 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
357 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
363 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
366 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
367 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
371 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
373 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
377 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Removing perl warning message.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
383 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
386 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
387 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
388 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
389 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
390 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
391 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
392 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
393 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
397 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
403 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
410 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
413 debconf-mergetemplate.
414 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
415 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
419 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
422 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
423 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
424 dh_install, which ...
425 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
426 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
427 mess, as it uses debian/install.
428 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
429 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
430 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
431 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
432 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
433 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
434 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
435 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
436 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
437 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
438 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
440 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
441 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
442 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
443 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
444 course there's -X ..)
445 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
446 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
447 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
449 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
450 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
451 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
452 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
453 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
458 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
464 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Typo, Closes: #139176
467 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
471 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
477 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
483 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
489 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
495 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
498 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
499 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
500 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
501 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
503 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
504 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
508 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
514 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Typo, Closes: #132454
517 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
521 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
524 upset. Closes: #131322
526 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
528 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
531 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
532 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
533 line, as well as in debian/rules.
534 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
535 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
536 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
537 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
538 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
539 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
540 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
541 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
542 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
543 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
544 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
545 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
547 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
551 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
554 - Better indenting of generated code.
555 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
559 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
563 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
564 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
565 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
566 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
567 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
568 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
569 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
573 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
576 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
580 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
583 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
584 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
585 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
586 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
587 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
588 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
589 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
590 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
591 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
592 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
593 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
594 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
595 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
596 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
597 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
602 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
608 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
611 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
612 * fixed dh_testdir man page
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
616 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Typo, Closes: #122679
619 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
620 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
624 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
630 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
633 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
634 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
635 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
636 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
637 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
642 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
644 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
648 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
651 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
655 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
658 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
663 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Typo, Closes: #114135
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
669 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
672 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
676 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
682 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
686 Also some indentation fixes.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
690 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
693 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
694 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
695 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
696 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
697 Closes: #106514, #85520
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
701 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Typo, Closes: #104405
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
707 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
713 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
715 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
719 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
725 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
731 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
734 change it in debhelper v4..
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
738 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
744 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
747 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
751 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
754 is not essential. Closes: #100430
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
758 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
764 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
767 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
768 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
769 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
770 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
771 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
772 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
773 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
774 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
775 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
776 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
777 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
778 prefixed with ".debhelper")
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
782 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
785 look just like shared libs, but are not.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
789 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
796 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
799 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
800 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
801 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
802 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
803 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
804 program those options go to. So, for example,
805 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
806 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
807 something complex. Closes: #89311
808 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
812 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
814 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
815 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
816 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
817 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
821 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
824 through loop. Closes: #98598
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
828 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Missing semi-colon.
831 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
832 this (dh_* should be called, really).
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
836 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
839 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
840 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
841 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
845 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
848 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
849 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
853 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
856 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
860 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
863 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
864 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
868 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
871 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
872 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
873 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
877 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
880 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
881 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
882 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
886 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
889 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
893 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
899 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Typo, Closes: #92407
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
905 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
911 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
913 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
917 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
920 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
924 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
927 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
928 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
929 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
930 followed. Closes: #85483
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
934 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
936 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
937 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
938 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
942 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
945 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
946 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
947 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
948 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
949 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
950 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
951 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
952 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
953 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
954 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
955 Closes: #88464, #77743
956 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
957 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
958 us to deal with that gracefully.
959 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
961 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
962 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
963 a while, Closes: #51225
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
967 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
973 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
976 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
980 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
984 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
989 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
992 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
993 don't make packlist files.
994 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
995 debhelper coding standards.
996 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
997 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1001 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1004 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1008 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1011 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1012 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1013 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1014 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1015 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1016 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1017 but is mildly deprecated.
1018 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1019 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1020 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1021 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1022 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1023 switching to statoverrides..
1024 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1025 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1026 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1027 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1028 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1029 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1031 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1032 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1033 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1034 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1035 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1036 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1037 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1038 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1039 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1041 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1042 variable names, pod man pages).
1043 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1044 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1045 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1046 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1047 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1048 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1049 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1053 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1059 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1066 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1069 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1073 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1075 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1076 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1077 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1081 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1083 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1084 they were previously ignored.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1088 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1090 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1091 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1095 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1097 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1098 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1099 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1103 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1105 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1109 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1111 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1112 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1116 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1118 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1119 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1120 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1121 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1122 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1123 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1124 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1125 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1126 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1127 it is an obsolete program.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1131 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1133 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1137 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1141 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1143 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1147 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1149 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1151 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1153 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1157 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1163 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * typo: Closes, #78567
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1169 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1175 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1181 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1184 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1185 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1186 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1187 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1188 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1192 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1195 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1200 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1203 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1204 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1205 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1206 backwards-compatability.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1210 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1213 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1214 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1215 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1216 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1217 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1218 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1220 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1221 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1222 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1224 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1226 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1227 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1228 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1229 should now be raised to severity important..
1230 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1231 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1235 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1238 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1243 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1249 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1255 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1261 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1268 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1271 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1272 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1273 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1274 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1278 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1284 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1287 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1288 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1289 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1290 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1291 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1292 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1297 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1300 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1304 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1310 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1313 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1318 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1321 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1322 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1323 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1324 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1328 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1332 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1335 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1338 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1339 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1342 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1344 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1345 the TODO entry about it.
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1349 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1356 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1359 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1360 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1364 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1367 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1368 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1369 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1370 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1374 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1380 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1387 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1390 (this appears to be logal).
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1394 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1397 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1398 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1399 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1400 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1404 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1410 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1413 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1414 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1415 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1416 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1420 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1426 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1429 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1433 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1440 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1443 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1444 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1445 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1450 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1457 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1463 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1466 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1467 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1468 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1469 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1470 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1471 notice until v2 is complete.
1472 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1473 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1474 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1475 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1476 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1477 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1479 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1480 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1481 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1482 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1486 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1492 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1499 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1502 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1506 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1513 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1516 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1517 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1518 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1519 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1524 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1527 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1528 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1529 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1534 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1537 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1538 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1542 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1545 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1549 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1552 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1556 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1563 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1566 depend on the build and install targets.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1570 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1573 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1577 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1584 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1590 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1596 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1599 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1600 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1601 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1602 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1603 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1604 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1606 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1607 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1608 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1609 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1610 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1611 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1612 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1616 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1622 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1628 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1631 right place. Closes: #55065
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1635 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1642 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1645 * Copyright date updates.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1649 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1652 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1657 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1663 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1670 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1676 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1682 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1688 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1691 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1692 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1693 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1694 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1695 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1696 bits until all files have been registered.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1700 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installmanpages:
1703 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1704 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1705 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1706 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1707 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1708 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1709 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1710 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1711 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1712 otherwise change the result at all.
1714 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1715 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1716 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1717 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1718 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1723 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1729 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1732 act on files that don't exist.
1733 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1734 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1735 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1737 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1738 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1739 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1740 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1744 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1750 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1756 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1759 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1763 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1766 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1768 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1769 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1770 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1774 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1777 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1778 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1779 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1780 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1781 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1782 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1783 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1785 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1787 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1791 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1798 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1804 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1810 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1813 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1817 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1823 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1829 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1832 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1833 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1834 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1835 I made some changes, though:
1836 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1837 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1838 that is a clear violation of policy.
1839 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1840 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1841 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1842 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1843 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1844 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1845 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1846 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1847 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1849 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1853 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1859 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1862 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1866 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1869 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1870 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1875 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1881 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1888 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1891 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1892 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1893 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1894 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1895 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1896 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1897 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1901 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1907 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1911 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1912 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1916 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1922 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1925 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1929 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1932 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1933 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1937 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1939 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1944 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1948 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1952 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1955 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1956 for the dependancies to be generated.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1960 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1963 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1967 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1970 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1971 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1972 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1977 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1980 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1981 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1985 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1991 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1997 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2000 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2004 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2010 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2013 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2014 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2015 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2016 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2017 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2018 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2019 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2020 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2021 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2022 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2023 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2024 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2028 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2031 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2032 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2034 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2035 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2036 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2037 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2038 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2039 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2041 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2042 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2046 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2049 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2053 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2060 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2063 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2068 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2071 for building debhelper.
2072 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2076 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2083 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2086 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2090 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2093 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2094 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2095 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2096 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2097 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2098 it's always available.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2102 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2105 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2106 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2107 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2111 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2114 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2115 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2119 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2125 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2128 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2132 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2138 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2141 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2142 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2143 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2147 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2150 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2155 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2158 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2159 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2161 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2162 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2166 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2172 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2178 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2181 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2185 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2188 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2189 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2191 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2195 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2198 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2199 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2200 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2204 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2207 things if CDPATH is set.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2211 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2217 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2220 seems to make sense for the transition.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2224 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2227 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2232 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2235 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2236 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2240 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2243 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2247 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2250 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2251 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2252 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2253 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2257 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2263 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2266 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2267 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2268 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2269 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2270 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2271 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2272 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2273 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2274 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2275 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2280 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2283 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2284 * README: mention doc/v2
2285 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2286 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2290 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2292 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2293 be using this script RSN.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2297 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2300 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2301 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2302 more than 1 init script.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2306 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2309 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2313 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Changed perl version detection.
2316 * Changed call to find.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2320 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2323 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2325 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2330 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Really include dh_installpam.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2336 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2339 * Wrote man page for same.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2343 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2346 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2347 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2352 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2359 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2362 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2363 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2364 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2365 x bit was being set!
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2369 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2372 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2373 well. (Closes: 38900)
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2377 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2380 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2381 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2385 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2391 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2398 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2404 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2407 help from Julian Gilbey.
2408 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2409 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2410 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2411 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2412 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2413 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2414 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2419 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2425 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2432 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2438 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2444 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2447 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2451 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2454 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2458 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2461 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2465 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2471 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2474 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2478 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2484 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2490 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2493 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2494 may be deleted. (#35845)
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2498 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Various man page enhancements.
2501 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2506 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2509 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2510 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2514 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2517 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2518 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2519 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2521 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2522 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2527 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2533 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Another very minor typo fix.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2539 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Very minor typo fix.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2545 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2548 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2549 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2553 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2559 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2562 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2563 variables properly (#34850).
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2567 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2573 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2576 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2577 (automatically generated by build process).
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2581 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2583 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2587 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2590 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2591 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2593 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2597 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2600 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2604 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * README: minor typo fix.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2610 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2613 leave it at that. :-)
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2617 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2623 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2629 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2632 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2633 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2634 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2638 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2641 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2645 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2648 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2652 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2655 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2656 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2657 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2658 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2662 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2665 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2666 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2667 Craig Small for spotting this.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2671 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2674 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2675 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2679 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2685 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2688 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2692 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2694 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2695 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2696 working on the last version of debhelper.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2700 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2703 being made. (#23255)
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2707 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2713 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2716 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2720 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2723 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2724 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2725 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2726 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2730 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2733 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2734 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2735 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2736 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2738 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2739 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2741 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2746 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2752 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2758 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2761 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2762 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2763 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2764 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2765 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2766 suidregister actually supports it.
2767 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2768 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2772 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2779 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2782 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2783 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2784 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2785 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2786 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2787 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2788 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2792 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2794 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2795 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2799 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2802 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2803 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2804 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2805 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2809 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2812 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2814 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2815 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2816 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2817 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2818 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2819 effect, either. (#30118)
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2823 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2829 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2832 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2833 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2837 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2843 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2846 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2847 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2848 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2849 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2853 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2856 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2857 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2861 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2867 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2870 packages, painlessly.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2874 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2880 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2886 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2892 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * The perl conversion is complete.
2896 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2898 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2899 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2900 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2905 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2908 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2909 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2910 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2914 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2917 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2919 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2921 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2922 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2926 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2929 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2930 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2934 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2940 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2943 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2944 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2945 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2946 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2947 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2951 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2954 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2955 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2956 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2957 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2961 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2964 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2968 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2971 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2972 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2973 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2974 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2975 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2976 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2977 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2978 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2982 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2988 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2991 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2992 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2993 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2998 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3001 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3005 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3008 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3012 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3015 sections of shared libraries.
3016 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3017 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3018 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3019 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3020 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3021 things you don't want them to.
3022 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3023 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3027 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3030 shared libraries. (#26414)
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3034 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3036 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3037 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3038 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3039 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3043 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3047 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3049 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3050 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3051 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3052 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3053 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3057 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3060 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3064 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3067 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3068 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3073 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3076 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3080 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3083 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3084 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3085 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3086 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3087 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3089 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3090 remove debian/files properly.
3091 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3092 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3093 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3094 * Removed bogus menu file.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3098 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3101 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3105 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3108 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3109 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3110 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3111 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3112 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3113 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3117 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3120 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3121 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3122 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3123 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3127 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3134 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3137 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3138 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3140 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3141 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3142 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3143 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3144 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3145 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3149 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3152 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3153 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3154 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3155 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3156 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3157 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3158 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3159 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3160 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3161 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3162 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3163 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3164 passed any switches.
3165 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3169 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3172 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3173 at all for a long while.
3174 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3175 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3176 large chunks in the process.
3177 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3178 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3179 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3184 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3187 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3189 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3194 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3197 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3198 that don't always have the same files in them.
3199 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3200 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3201 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3205 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3209 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3210 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3211 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3212 updating 27 man pages.
3213 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3214 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3215 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3216 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3217 programs act on. (#25247)
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3221 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3225 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3226 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3227 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3228 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3229 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3230 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3235 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3242 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3249 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3252 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3256 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3262 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3265 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3266 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3267 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3268 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3269 package by accident.
3270 * Is version 1.0 next?
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3274 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3277 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3278 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3282 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3285 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3286 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3287 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3288 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3289 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3291 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3296 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3299 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3300 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3304 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3307 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3311 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3314 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3315 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3320 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3326 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3329 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3330 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3335 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3341 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3344 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3345 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3346 past week. Thanks, guys!
3348 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3349 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3350 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3351 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3352 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3353 would do in the same situation.
3354 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3355 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3357 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3359 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3360 permissions changed.
3361 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3362 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3363 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3364 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3365 files are treated identically.
3366 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3367 * Minor man page fixes.
3368 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3369 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3370 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3374 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3377 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3378 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3379 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3380 use -X multiple times, too.
3381 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3382 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3386 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3389 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3390 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3394 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3397 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3401 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3404 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3405 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3406 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3407 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3408 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3409 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3410 shape if you're starting a new package.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3414 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3417 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3421 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3424 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3425 because of missing symlinks.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3429 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3435 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3438 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3439 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3440 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3441 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3442 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3444 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3445 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3449 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3451 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3452 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3453 to be changed after the fact :-)
3454 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3458 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3461 no version string after the -V.
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3465 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3467 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3468 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3473 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3476 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3480 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3483 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3484 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3485 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3486 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3487 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3488 I always welcome corrections!
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3492 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3498 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3501 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3502 * Documented this new switch.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3506 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3509 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3510 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3511 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3512 no packages use the old behavior.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3516 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3519 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3520 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3524 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3527 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3531 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3537 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3540 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3544 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3547 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3548 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3549 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3553 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3559 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3562 into the source package by accident.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3566 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3569 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3570 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3571 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3572 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3573 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3574 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3579 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3583 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3584 inspired to implement some of it.
3585 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3589 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3592 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3596 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3599 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3600 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3604 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3607 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3608 have done.) (#17598)
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3612 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3618 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3624 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3627 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3631 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3634 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3635 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3639 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3642 argument processor in perl.
3643 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3644 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3645 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3646 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3650 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3653 type directories. (#16933)
3654 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3655 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3656 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3657 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3658 are supported. (#16935)
3659 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3664 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3667 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3671 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3675 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3676 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3677 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3678 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3679 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3680 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3684 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3687 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3688 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3690 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3691 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3692 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3693 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3694 a given package, or -i or -a.
3695 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3696 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3697 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3698 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3699 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3700 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3701 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3702 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3703 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3705 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3706 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3707 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3711 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3714 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3715 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3720 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3723 does not have a section.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3727 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3730 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3731 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3732 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3736 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Fixed typo #16215.
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3742 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3745 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3746 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3747 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3748 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3749 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3754 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3757 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3758 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3759 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3764 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3770 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3776 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3779 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3780 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3781 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3782 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3783 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3784 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3788 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3794 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3797 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3801 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3804 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3805 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3806 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3810 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3813 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3817 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3823 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3826 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3830 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3833 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3837 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3843 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3846 postinst, postrm, etc.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3850 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3856 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3859 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3860 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3861 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3862 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3863 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3867 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3870 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3871 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3875 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3878 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3882 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3885 installing package files into.
3886 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3891 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3895 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3899 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3905 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3908 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3912 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3915 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3916 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3917 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3918 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3922 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3924 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3925 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3926 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3927 multiple binary packages.
3928 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3929 should rebuild them with this version.
3930 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3934 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3937 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3941 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3944 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3948 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3951 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3952 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3953 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3954 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3955 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3956 debian/README.debian.
3957 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3958 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3959 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3960 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3961 in a few situations.)
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3965 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3971 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3977 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3980 * Fixed several man pages.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3984 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3987 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3988 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3992 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3995 is ready for general use.
3996 * Added man pages for all commands.
3997 * Multiple binary package support.
3998 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3999 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4000 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4002 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4003 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4004 auto-installed as parameters.
4005 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4007 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4010 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4011 the package build directory it is to act on.
4012 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4013 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4014 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4018 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4020 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4021 ready to replace debstd.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400