1 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
4 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
8 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
11 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
15 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
18 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
22 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
25 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
29 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
35 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
41 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
47 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
50 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
51 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
52 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
56 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
59 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
63 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
66 but occasionally right and necessary.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
70 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
73 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
74 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
75 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
76 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
77 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937a
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
81 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
84 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
86 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
87 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
88 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
89 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
90 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
91 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
92 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
93 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
94 postinst scripts for udebs.
95 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
99 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
102 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
104 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
105 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
109 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
111 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
115 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
122 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
129 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
132 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
136 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
139 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
143 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
146 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
149 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
150 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
154 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
160 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
163 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
167 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
170 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
171 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
172 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
174 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
176 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
177 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
178 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
182 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
184 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
185 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
190 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
193 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
194 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
195 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
200 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
206 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
212 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
215 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
216 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
217 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
218 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
219 associated -dbg packages.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
223 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
226 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
230 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
233 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
237 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
240 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
244 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
247 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
252 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Typo. Closes: #207999
255 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
259 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
262 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
267 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
270 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
274 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
278 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
279 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
280 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
281 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
282 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
283 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
284 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
285 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
286 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
287 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
291 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
294 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
299 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
302 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
303 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
307 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
310 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
311 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
316 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
319 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
323 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
326 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
330 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
333 out section number. Closes: #204731
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
337 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
344 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
346 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
350 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
356 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Typo, Closes: #203907
359 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
360 removal. Closes: #204286
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
364 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
366 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
367 renaming. Closes: #203548
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
371 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
373 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
374 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
375 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
379 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
385 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
391 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
393 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
397 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
400 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
401 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
402 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
406 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
409 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
410 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
414 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
420 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
427 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
430 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
435 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
438 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
442 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
445 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
447 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
448 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
452 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
455 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
460 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
463 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
467 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
469 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
473 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
475 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
479 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
482 it break hard links (see #188663).
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
486 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
489 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
493 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
495 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
499 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
503 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
504 debconf-mergetemplates
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
508 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
511 pod2man. Closes: #184013
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
515 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
518 * Typo, Closes: #183267
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
522 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
525 * Update debhelper(1).
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
529 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
531 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
532 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
533 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
534 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
535 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
536 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
540 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
543 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
544 the shell. Closes: #178524
545 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
549 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
552 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
556 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
559 undocumented.7 links anymore.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
563 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
565 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
566 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
567 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
568 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
569 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
574 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
576 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
577 files from installation.
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
581 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
584 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
585 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
589 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
592 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
596 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
599 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
603 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
609 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
615 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
619 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
620 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
622 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
626 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
629 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
630 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
631 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
632 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
636 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
638 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
639 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
643 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
646 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
647 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
651 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
655 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
660 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
666 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
670 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
671 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
672 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
677 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
680 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
681 practice. Closes: #163303
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
685 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
687 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
691 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
698 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
700 * The "reverse hangover" release.
701 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
703 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
704 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
705 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
706 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
707 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
711 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
714 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
719 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
725 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
732 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
735 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
740 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
746 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
752 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
758 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
765 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
768 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
769 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
770 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
771 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
776 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Typo, Closes: #155323
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
782 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
789 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
792 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
793 * Removed dh_installxaw.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
797 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
800 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
801 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
802 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
803 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
804 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
808 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
811 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
813 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
818 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
820 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
821 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
825 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
828 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
829 right thing. Closes: #150644
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
833 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
840 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
842 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
847 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
850 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
851 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
856 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
862 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
865 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
869 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
872 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
873 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
878 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
881 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
885 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
891 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
894 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
895 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
899 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
905 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Removing perl warning message.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
911 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
914 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
915 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
916 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
917 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
918 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
919 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
920 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
921 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
925 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
931 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
938 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
941 debconf-mergetemplate.
942 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
943 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
947 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
950 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
951 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
952 dh_install, which ...
953 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
954 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
955 mess, as it uses debian/install.
956 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
957 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
958 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
959 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
960 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
961 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
962 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
963 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
964 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
965 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
966 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
968 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
969 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
970 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
971 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
972 course there's -X ..)
973 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
974 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
975 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
977 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
978 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
979 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
980 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
981 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
986 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
992 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Typo, Closes: #139176
995 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
999 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1005 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1011 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1017 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1023 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1026 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1027 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1028 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1029 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1031 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1032 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1036 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1042 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1045 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1049 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1052 upset. Closes: #131322
1054 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1056 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1059 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1060 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1061 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1062 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1063 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1064 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1065 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1066 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1067 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1068 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1069 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1070 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1071 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1072 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1073 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1075 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1079 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1082 - Better indenting of generated code.
1083 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1087 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1091 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1092 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1093 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1094 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1095 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1096 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1097 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1101 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1104 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1108 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1111 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1112 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1113 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1114 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1115 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1116 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1117 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1118 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1119 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1120 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1121 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1122 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1123 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1124 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1125 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1130 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1136 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1139 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1140 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1144 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1147 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1148 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1152 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1158 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1161 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1162 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1163 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1164 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1165 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1170 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1176 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1179 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1183 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1186 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1191 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1197 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1200 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1204 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1210 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1214 Also some indentation fixes.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1218 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1221 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1222 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1223 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1224 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1225 Closes: #106514, #85520
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1229 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1235 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1241 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1247 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1253 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1259 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1262 change it in debhelper v4..
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1266 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1272 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1275 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1279 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1282 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1286 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1292 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1295 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1296 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1297 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1298 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1299 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1300 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1301 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1302 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1303 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1304 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1305 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1306 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1310 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1313 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1317 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1324 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1327 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1328 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1329 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1330 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1331 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1332 program those options go to. So, for example,
1333 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1334 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1335 something complex. Closes: #89311
1336 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1340 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1343 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1344 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1345 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1349 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1352 through loop. Closes: #98598
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1356 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Missing semi-colon.
1359 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1360 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1364 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1367 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1368 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1369 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1373 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1376 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1377 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1381 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1384 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1388 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1391 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1392 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1396 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1399 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1400 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1401 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1405 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1408 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1409 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1410 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1414 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1417 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1421 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1427 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1433 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1439 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1445 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1448 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1452 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1455 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1456 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1457 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1458 followed. Closes: #85483
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1462 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1464 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1465 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1466 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1470 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1473 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1474 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1475 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1476 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1477 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1478 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1479 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1480 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1481 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1482 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1483 Closes: #88464, #77743
1484 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1485 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1486 us to deal with that gracefully.
1487 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1489 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1490 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1491 a while, Closes: #51225
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1495 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1501 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1504 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1508 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1512 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1517 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1520 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1521 don't make packlist files.
1522 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1523 debhelper coding standards.
1524 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1525 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1529 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1532 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1536 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1539 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1540 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1541 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1542 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1543 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1544 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1545 but is mildly deprecated.
1546 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1547 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1548 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1549 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1550 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1551 switching to statoverrides..
1552 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1553 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1554 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1555 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1556 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1557 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1559 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1560 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1561 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1562 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1563 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1564 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1565 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1566 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1567 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1569 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1570 variable names, pod man pages).
1571 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1572 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1573 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1574 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1575 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1576 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1577 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1581 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1587 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1594 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1597 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1601 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1603 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1604 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1605 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1609 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1611 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1612 they were previously ignored.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1616 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1618 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1619 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1623 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1625 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1626 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1627 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1631 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1633 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1637 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1639 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1640 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1644 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1646 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1647 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1648 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1649 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1650 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1651 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1652 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1653 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1654 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1655 it is an obsolete program.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1659 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1661 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1665 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1669 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1671 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1675 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1677 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1679 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1681 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1685 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1691 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * typo: Closes, #78567
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1697 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1703 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1709 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1712 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1713 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1714 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1715 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1716 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1720 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1723 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1728 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1731 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1732 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1733 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1734 backwards-compatability.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1738 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1741 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1742 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1743 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1744 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1745 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1746 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1748 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1749 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1750 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1752 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1754 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1755 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1756 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1757 should now be raised to severity important..
1758 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1759 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1763 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1766 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1771 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1777 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1783 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1789 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1796 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1799 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1800 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1801 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1802 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1806 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1812 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1815 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1816 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1817 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1818 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1819 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1820 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1825 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1828 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1832 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1838 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1841 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1846 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1849 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1850 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1851 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1852 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1856 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1860 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1863 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1866 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1867 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1870 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1872 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1873 the TODO entry about it.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1884 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1887 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1888 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1892 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1895 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1896 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1897 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1898 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1902 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1908 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1915 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1918 (this appears to be logal).
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1922 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1925 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1926 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1927 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1928 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1932 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1938 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1941 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1942 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1943 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1944 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1948 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1954 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1957 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1961 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1968 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1971 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1972 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1973 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1978 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1985 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1991 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1994 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1995 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1996 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1997 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1998 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1999 notice until v2 is complete.
2000 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2001 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2002 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2003 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2004 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2005 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2007 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2008 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2009 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2010 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2014 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2020 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2027 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2030 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2034 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2041 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2044 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2045 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2046 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2047 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2052 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2055 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2056 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2057 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2062 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2065 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2066 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2070 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2073 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2077 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2080 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2084 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2091 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2094 depend on the build and install targets.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2098 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2101 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2105 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2112 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2118 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2124 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2127 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2128 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2129 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2130 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2131 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2132 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2134 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2135 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2136 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2137 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2138 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2139 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2140 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2144 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2150 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2156 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2159 right place. Closes: #55065
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2163 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2170 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2173 * Copyright date updates.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2177 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2180 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2185 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2191 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2198 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2204 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2210 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2216 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2219 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2220 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2221 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2222 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2223 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2224 bits until all files have been registered.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2228 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_installmanpages:
2231 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2232 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2233 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2234 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2235 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2236 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2237 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2238 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2239 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2240 otherwise change the result at all.
2242 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2243 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2244 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2245 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2246 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2251 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2257 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2260 act on files that don't exist.
2261 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2262 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2263 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2265 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2266 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2267 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2268 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2272 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2278 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2284 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2287 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2291 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2294 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2296 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2297 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2298 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2302 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2305 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2306 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2307 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2308 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2309 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2310 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2311 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2313 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2315 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2319 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2326 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2332 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2338 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2341 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2345 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2351 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2357 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2360 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2361 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2362 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2363 I made some changes, though:
2364 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2365 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2366 that is a clear violation of policy.
2367 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2368 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2369 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2370 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2371 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2372 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2373 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2374 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2375 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2377 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2381 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2387 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2390 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2394 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2397 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2398 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2403 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2409 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2416 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2419 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2420 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2421 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2422 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2423 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2424 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2425 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2429 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2435 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2439 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2440 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2444 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2450 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2453 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2457 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2460 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2461 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2465 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2467 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2472 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2476 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2480 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2483 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2484 for the dependancies to be generated.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2488 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2491 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2495 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2498 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2499 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2500 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2505 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2508 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2509 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2513 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2519 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2525 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2528 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2532 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2538 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2541 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2542 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2543 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2544 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2545 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2546 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2547 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2548 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2549 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2550 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2551 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2552 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2556 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2559 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2560 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2562 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2563 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2564 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2565 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2566 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2567 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2569 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2570 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2574 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2577 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2581 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2588 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2591 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2596 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2599 for building debhelper.
2600 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2604 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2611 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2614 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2618 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2621 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2622 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2623 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2624 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2625 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2626 it's always available.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2630 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2633 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2634 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2635 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2639 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2642 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2643 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2647 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2653 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2656 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2660 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2666 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2669 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2670 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2671 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2675 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2678 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2683 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2686 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2687 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2689 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2690 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2694 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2700 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2706 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2709 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2713 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2716 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2717 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2719 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2723 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2726 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2727 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2728 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2732 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2735 things if CDPATH is set.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2739 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2745 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2748 seems to make sense for the transition.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2752 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2755 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2760 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2763 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2764 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2768 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2771 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2775 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2778 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2779 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2780 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2781 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2785 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2791 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2794 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2795 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2796 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2797 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2798 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2799 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2800 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2801 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2802 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2803 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2808 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2811 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2812 * README: mention doc/v2
2813 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2814 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2818 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2820 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2821 be using this script RSN.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2825 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2828 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2829 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2830 more than 1 init script.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2834 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2837 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2841 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Changed perl version detection.
2844 * Changed call to find.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2848 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2851 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2853 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2858 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Really include dh_installpam.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2864 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2867 * Wrote man page for same.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2871 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2874 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2875 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2880 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2887 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2890 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2891 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2892 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2893 x bit was being set!
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2897 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2900 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2901 well. (Closes: 38900)
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2905 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2908 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2909 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2913 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2919 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2926 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2932 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2935 help from Julian Gilbey.
2936 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2937 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2938 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2939 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2940 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2941 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2942 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2947 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2953 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2960 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2966 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2972 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2975 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2979 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2982 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2986 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2989 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2993 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2999 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3002 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3006 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3012 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3018 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3021 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3022 may be deleted. (#35845)
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3026 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * Various man page enhancements.
3029 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3034 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3037 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3038 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3042 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3045 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3046 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3047 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3049 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3050 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3055 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3061 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Another very minor typo fix.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3067 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * Very minor typo fix.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3073 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3076 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3077 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3081 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3087 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3090 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3091 variables properly (#34850).
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3095 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3101 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3104 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3105 (automatically generated by build process).
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3109 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3111 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3115 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3118 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3119 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3121 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3125 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3128 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3132 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * README: minor typo fix.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3138 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3141 leave it at that. :-)
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3145 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3151 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3157 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3160 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3161 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3162 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3166 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3169 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3173 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3176 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3180 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3183 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3184 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3185 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3186 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3190 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3193 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3194 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3195 Craig Small for spotting this.
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3199 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3202 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3203 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3207 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3213 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3216 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3220 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3222 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3223 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3224 working on the last version of debhelper.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3228 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3231 being made. (#23255)
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3235 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3241 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3244 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3248 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3251 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3252 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3253 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3254 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3258 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3261 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3262 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3263 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3264 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3266 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3267 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3269 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3274 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3280 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3286 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3289 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3290 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3291 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3292 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3293 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3294 suidregister actually supports it.
3295 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3296 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3300 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3307 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3310 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3311 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3312 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3313 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3314 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3315 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3316 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3320 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3322 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3323 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3327 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3330 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3331 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3332 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3333 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3337 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3340 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3342 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3343 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3344 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3345 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3346 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3347 effect, either. (#30118)
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3351 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3357 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3360 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3361 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3365 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3371 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3374 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3375 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3376 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3377 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3381 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3384 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3385 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3389 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3395 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3398 packages, painlessly.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3402 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3408 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3414 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3420 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * The perl conversion is complete.
3424 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3426 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3427 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3428 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3433 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3436 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3437 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3438 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3442 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3445 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3447 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3449 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3450 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3454 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3457 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3458 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3462 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3468 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3471 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3472 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3473 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3474 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3475 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3479 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3482 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3483 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3484 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3485 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3489 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3492 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3496 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3499 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3500 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3501 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3502 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3503 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3504 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3505 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3506 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3510 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3516 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3519 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3520 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3521 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3526 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3529 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3533 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3536 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3540 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3543 sections of shared libraries.
3544 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3545 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3546 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3547 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3548 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3549 things you don't want them to.
3550 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3551 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3555 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3558 shared libraries. (#26414)
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3562 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3564 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3565 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3566 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3567 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3571 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3575 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3577 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3578 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3579 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3580 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3581 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3585 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3588 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3592 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3595 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3596 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3601 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3604 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3608 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3611 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3612 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3613 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3614 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3615 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3617 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3618 remove debian/files properly.
3619 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3620 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3621 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3622 * Removed bogus menu file.
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3626 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3629 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3633 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3636 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3637 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3638 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3639 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3640 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3641 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3645 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3648 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3649 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3650 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3651 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3655 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3662 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3665 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3666 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3668 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3669 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3670 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3671 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3672 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3673 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3677 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3680 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3681 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3682 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3683 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3684 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3685 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3686 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3687 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3688 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3689 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3690 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3691 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3692 passed any switches.
3693 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3697 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3700 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3701 at all for a long while.
3702 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3703 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3704 large chunks in the process.
3705 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3706 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3707 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3712 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3715 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3717 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3722 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3725 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3726 that don't always have the same files in them.
3727 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3728 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3729 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3733 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3737 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3738 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3739 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3740 updating 27 man pages.
3741 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3742 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3743 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3744 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3745 programs act on. (#25247)
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3749 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3753 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3754 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3755 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3756 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3757 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3758 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3763 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3770 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3777 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3780 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3784 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3790 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3793 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3794 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3795 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3796 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3797 package by accident.
3798 * Is version 1.0 next?
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3802 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3805 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3806 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3810 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3813 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3814 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3815 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3816 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3817 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3819 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3824 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3827 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3828 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3832 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3835 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3839 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3842 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3843 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3848 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3854 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3857 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3858 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3863 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3869 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3872 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3873 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3874 past week. Thanks, guys!
3876 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3877 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3878 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3879 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3880 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3881 would do in the same situation.
3882 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3883 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3885 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3887 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3888 permissions changed.
3889 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3890 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3891 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3892 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3893 files are treated identically.
3894 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3895 * Minor man page fixes.
3896 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3897 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3898 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3902 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3905 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3906 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3907 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3908 use -X multiple times, too.
3909 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3910 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3914 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3917 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3918 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3922 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3925 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3929 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3932 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3933 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3934 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3935 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3936 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3937 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3938 shape if you're starting a new package.
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3942 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3945 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3949 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3952 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3953 because of missing symlinks.
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3957 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3963 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3966 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3967 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3968 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3969 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3970 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3972 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3973 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3977 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3979 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3980 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3981 to be changed after the fact :-)
3982 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3986 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3989 no version string after the -V.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3993 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3995 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3996 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4001 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4004 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4008 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4011 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4012 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4013 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4014 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4015 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4016 I always welcome corrections!
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4020 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4026 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4029 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4030 * Documented this new switch.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4034 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4037 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4038 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4039 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4040 no packages use the old behavior.
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4044 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4047 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4048 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4052 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4055 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4059 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4065 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4068 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4072 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4075 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4076 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4077 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4081 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4087 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4090 into the source package by accident.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4094 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4097 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4098 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4099 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4100 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4101 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4102 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4107 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4111 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4112 inspired to implement some of it.
4113 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4117 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4120 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4124 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4127 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4128 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4132 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4135 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4136 have done.) (#17598)
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4140 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4146 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4152 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4155 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4159 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4162 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4163 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4167 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4170 argument processor in perl.
4171 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4172 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4173 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4174 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4178 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4181 type directories. (#16933)
4182 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4183 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4184 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4185 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4186 are supported. (#16935)
4187 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4192 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4195 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4199 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4203 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4204 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4205 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4206 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4207 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4208 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4212 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4215 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4216 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4218 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4219 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4220 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4221 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4222 a given package, or -i or -a.
4223 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4224 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4225 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4226 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4227 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4228 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4229 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4230 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4231 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4233 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4234 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4235 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4239 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4242 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4243 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4248 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4251 does not have a section.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4255 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4258 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4259 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4260 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4264 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * Fixed typo #16215.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4270 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4273 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4274 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4275 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4276 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4277 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4282 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4285 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4286 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4287 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4292 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4298 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4304 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4307 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4308 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4309 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4310 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4311 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4312 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4316 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4322 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4325 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4329 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4332 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4333 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4334 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4338 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4341 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4345 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4351 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4354 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4358 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4361 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4365 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4371 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4374 postinst, postrm, etc.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4378 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4384 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4387 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4388 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4389 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4390 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4391 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4395 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4398 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4399 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4403 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4406 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4410 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4413 installing package files into.
4414 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4419 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4423 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4427 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4433 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4436 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4440 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4443 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4444 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4445 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4446 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4450 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4452 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4453 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4454 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4455 multiple binary packages.
4456 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4457 should rebuild them with this version.
4458 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4462 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4465 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4469 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4472 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4476 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4479 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4480 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4481 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4482 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4483 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4484 debian/README.debian.
4485 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4486 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4487 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4488 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4489 in a few situations.)
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4493 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4499 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4505 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4508 * Fixed several man pages.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4512 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4515 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4516 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4520 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4523 is ready for general use.
4524 * Added man pages for all commands.
4525 * Multiple binary package support.
4526 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4527 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4528 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4530 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4531 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4532 auto-installed as parameters.
4533 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4535 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4538 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4539 the package build directory it is to act on.
4540 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4541 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4542 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4546 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4548 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4549 ready to replace debstd.
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400