1 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
8 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
11 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
15 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
18 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
22 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
25 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
28 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
29 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
33 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
39 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
42 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
46 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
49 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
50 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
51 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
53 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
55 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
56 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
57 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
61 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
64 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
69 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
72 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
73 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
74 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
79 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
81 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
85 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
91 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
94 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
95 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
96 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
97 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
98 associated -dbg packages.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
102 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
105 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
109 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
112 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
116 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
119 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
123 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
126 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
131 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Typo. Closes: #207999
134 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
138 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
141 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
146 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
149 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
153 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
157 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
158 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
159 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
160 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
161 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
162 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
163 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
164 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
165 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
166 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
170 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
173 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
178 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
181 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
182 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
186 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
189 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
190 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
195 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
198 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
202 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
205 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
209 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
212 out section number. Closes: #204731
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
216 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
218 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
223 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
229 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
235 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Typo, Closes: #203907
238 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
239 removal. Closes: #204286
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
243 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
246 renaming. Closes: #203548
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
250 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
253 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
254 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
258 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
264 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
270 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
276 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
279 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
280 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
281 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
285 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
288 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
289 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
293 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
299 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
306 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
309 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
314 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
317 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
321 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
324 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
326 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
327 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
331 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
334 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
339 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
342 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
346 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
352 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
354 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
358 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
361 it break hard links (see #188663).
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
365 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
368 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
372 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
378 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
382 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
383 debconf-mergetemplates
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
387 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
390 pod2man. Closes: #184013
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
394 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
396 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
397 * Typo, Closes: #183267
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
401 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
404 * Update debhelper(1).
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
408 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
410 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
411 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
412 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
413 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
414 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
415 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
419 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
422 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
423 the shell. Closes: #178524
424 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
428 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
431 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
435 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
438 undocumented.7 links anymore.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
442 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
444 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
445 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
446 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
447 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
448 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
453 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
456 files from installation.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
460 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
463 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
464 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
468 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
471 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
475 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
477 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
478 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
482 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
484 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
488 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
494 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
498 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
499 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
501 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
505 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
508 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
509 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
510 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
511 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
515 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
517 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
518 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
522 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
525 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
526 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
530 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
534 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
539 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
545 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
549 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
550 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
551 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
556 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
559 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
560 practice. Closes: #163303
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
564 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
566 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
570 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
577 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
579 * The "reverse hangover" release.
580 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
582 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
583 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
584 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
585 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
586 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
590 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
593 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
598 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
604 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
611 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
614 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
619 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
625 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
631 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
637 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
644 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
647 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
648 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
649 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
650 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
655 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Typo, Closes: #155323
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
661 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
668 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
671 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
672 * Removed dh_installxaw.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
676 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
679 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
680 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
681 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
682 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
683 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
687 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
690 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
692 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
697 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
699 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
700 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
704 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
707 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
708 right thing. Closes: #150644
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
712 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
719 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
721 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
726 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
729 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
730 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
735 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
741 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
744 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
748 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
751 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
752 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
757 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
760 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
764 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
770 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
773 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
774 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
778 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
784 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Removing perl warning message.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
790 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
793 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
794 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
795 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
796 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
797 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
798 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
799 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
800 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
804 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
806 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
810 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
817 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
820 debconf-mergetemplate.
821 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
822 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
826 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
829 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
830 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
831 dh_install, which ...
832 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
833 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
834 mess, as it uses debian/install.
835 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
836 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
837 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
838 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
839 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
840 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
841 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
842 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
843 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
844 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
845 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
847 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
848 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
849 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
850 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
851 course there's -X ..)
852 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
853 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
854 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
856 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
857 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
858 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
859 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
860 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
865 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
871 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Typo, Closes: #139176
874 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
878 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
884 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
890 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
896 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
902 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
905 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
906 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
907 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
908 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
910 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
911 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
915 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
921 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Typo, Closes: #132454
924 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
928 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
931 upset. Closes: #131322
933 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
935 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
938 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
939 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
940 line, as well as in debian/rules.
941 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
942 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
943 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
944 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
945 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
946 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
947 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
948 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
949 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
950 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
951 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
952 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
954 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
958 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
961 - Better indenting of generated code.
962 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
966 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
970 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
971 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
972 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
973 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
974 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
975 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
976 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
980 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
983 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
987 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
990 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
991 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
992 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
993 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
994 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
995 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
996 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
997 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
998 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
999 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1000 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1001 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1002 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1003 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1004 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1009 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1015 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1018 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1019 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1023 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1026 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1027 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1031 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1037 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1040 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1041 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1042 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1043 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1044 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1049 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1055 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1058 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1062 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1065 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1070 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1076 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1079 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1083 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1089 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1093 Also some indentation fixes.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1097 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1100 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1101 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1102 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1103 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1104 Closes: #106514, #85520
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1108 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1114 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1120 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1126 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1132 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1138 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1141 change it in debhelper v4..
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1145 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1151 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1154 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1158 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1161 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1165 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1171 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1174 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1175 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1176 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1177 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1178 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1179 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1180 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1181 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1182 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1183 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1184 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1185 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1189 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1192 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1196 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1203 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1206 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1207 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1208 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1209 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1210 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1211 program those options go to. So, for example,
1212 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1213 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1214 something complex. Closes: #89311
1215 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1219 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1222 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1223 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1224 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1228 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1231 through loop. Closes: #98598
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1235 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * Missing semi-colon.
1238 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1239 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1243 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1246 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1247 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1248 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1252 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1255 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1256 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1260 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1263 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1267 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1270 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1271 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1275 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1278 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1279 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1280 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1284 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1287 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1288 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1289 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1293 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1296 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1300 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1306 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1312 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1318 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1324 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1327 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1331 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1334 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1335 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1336 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1337 followed. Closes: #85483
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1341 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1343 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1344 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1345 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1349 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1352 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1353 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1354 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1355 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1356 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1357 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1358 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1359 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1360 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1361 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1362 Closes: #88464, #77743
1363 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1364 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1365 us to deal with that gracefully.
1366 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1368 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1369 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1370 a while, Closes: #51225
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1374 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1380 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1383 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1387 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1391 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1396 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1399 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1400 don't make packlist files.
1401 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1402 debhelper coding standards.
1403 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1404 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1408 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1411 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1415 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1418 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1419 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1420 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1421 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1422 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1423 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1424 but is mildly deprecated.
1425 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1426 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1427 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1428 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1429 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1430 switching to statoverrides..
1431 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1432 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1433 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1434 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1435 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1436 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1438 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1439 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1440 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1441 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1442 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1443 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1444 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1445 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1446 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1448 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1449 variable names, pod man pages).
1450 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1451 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1452 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1453 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1454 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1455 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1456 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1460 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1466 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1473 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1476 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1480 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1482 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1483 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1484 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1488 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1490 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1491 they were previously ignored.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1495 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1497 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1498 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1502 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1504 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1505 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1506 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1510 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1512 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1516 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1518 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1519 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1523 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1525 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1526 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1527 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1528 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1529 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1530 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1531 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1532 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1533 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1534 it is an obsolete program.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1538 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1540 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1544 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1548 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1550 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1554 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1556 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1558 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1560 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1564 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1570 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * typo: Closes, #78567
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1576 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1582 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1588 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1591 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1592 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1593 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1594 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1595 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1599 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1602 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1607 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1610 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1611 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1612 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1613 backwards-compatability.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1617 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1620 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1621 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1622 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1623 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1624 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1625 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1627 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1628 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1629 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1631 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1633 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1634 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1635 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1636 should now be raised to severity important..
1637 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1638 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1642 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1645 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1650 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1656 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1662 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1668 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1675 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1678 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1679 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1680 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1681 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1685 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1691 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1694 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1695 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1696 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1697 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1698 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1699 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1704 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1707 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1711 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1717 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1720 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1725 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1728 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1729 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1730 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1731 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1735 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1739 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1742 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1745 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1746 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1749 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1751 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1752 the TODO entry about it.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1756 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1763 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1766 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1767 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1771 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1774 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1775 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1776 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1777 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1781 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1787 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1794 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1797 (this appears to be logal).
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1801 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1804 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1805 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1806 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1807 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1811 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1817 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1820 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1821 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1822 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1823 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1827 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1833 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1836 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1840 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1847 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1850 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1851 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1852 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1857 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1864 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1870 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1873 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1874 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1875 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1876 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1877 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1878 notice until v2 is complete.
1879 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1880 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1881 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1882 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1883 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1884 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1886 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1887 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1888 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1889 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1893 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1899 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1909 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1913 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1920 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1923 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1924 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1925 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1926 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1931 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1934 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1935 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1936 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1941 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1944 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1945 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1949 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1952 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1956 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1959 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1963 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1970 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1973 depend on the build and install targets.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1977 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1980 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1984 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1991 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1997 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2003 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2006 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2007 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2008 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2009 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2010 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2011 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2013 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2014 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2015 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2016 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2017 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2018 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2019 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2023 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2029 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2035 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2038 right place. Closes: #55065
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2042 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2049 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2052 * Copyright date updates.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2056 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2059 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2064 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2070 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2077 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2083 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2089 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2095 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2098 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2099 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2100 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2101 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2102 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2103 bits until all files have been registered.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2107 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_installmanpages:
2110 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2111 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2112 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2113 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2114 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2115 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2116 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2117 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2118 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2119 otherwise change the result at all.
2121 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2122 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2123 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2124 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2125 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2130 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2136 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2139 act on files that don't exist.
2140 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2141 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2142 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2144 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2145 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2146 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2147 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2151 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2157 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2163 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2166 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2170 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2173 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2175 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2176 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2177 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2181 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2184 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2185 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2186 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2187 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2188 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2189 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2190 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2192 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2194 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2198 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2205 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2211 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2217 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2220 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2224 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2230 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2236 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2239 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2240 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2241 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2242 I made some changes, though:
2243 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2244 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2245 that is a clear violation of policy.
2246 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2247 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2248 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2249 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2250 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2251 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2252 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2253 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2254 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2256 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2260 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2266 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2269 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2273 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2276 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2277 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2282 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2288 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2295 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2298 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2299 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2300 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2301 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2302 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2303 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2304 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2308 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2314 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2318 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2319 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2323 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2329 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2332 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2336 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2339 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2340 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2344 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2346 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2351 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2355 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2359 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2362 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2363 for the dependancies to be generated.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2367 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2370 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2374 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2377 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2378 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2379 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2384 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2387 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2388 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2392 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2398 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2404 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2407 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2411 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2417 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2420 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2421 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2422 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2423 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2424 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2425 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2426 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2427 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2428 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2429 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2430 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2431 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2435 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2438 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2439 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2441 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2442 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2443 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2444 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2445 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2446 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2448 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2449 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2453 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2456 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2460 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2467 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2470 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2475 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2478 for building debhelper.
2479 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2483 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2490 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2493 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2497 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2500 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2501 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2502 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2503 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2504 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2505 it's always available.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2509 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2512 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2513 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2514 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2518 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2521 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2522 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2526 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2532 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2535 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2539 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2545 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2548 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2549 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2550 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2554 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2557 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2562 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2565 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2566 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2568 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2569 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2573 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2579 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2585 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2588 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2592 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2595 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2596 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2598 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2602 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2605 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2606 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2607 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2611 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2614 things if CDPATH is set.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2618 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2624 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2627 seems to make sense for the transition.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2631 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2634 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2639 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2642 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2643 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2647 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2650 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2654 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2657 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2658 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2659 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2660 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2664 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2670 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2673 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2674 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2675 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2676 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2677 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2678 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2679 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2680 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2681 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2682 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2687 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2690 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2691 * README: mention doc/v2
2692 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2693 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2697 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2699 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2700 be using this script RSN.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2704 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2707 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2708 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2709 more than 1 init script.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2713 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2716 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2720 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Changed perl version detection.
2723 * Changed call to find.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2727 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2730 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2732 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2737 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Really include dh_installpam.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2743 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2746 * Wrote man page for same.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2750 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2753 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2754 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2759 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2766 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2769 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2770 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2771 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2772 x bit was being set!
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2776 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2779 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2780 well. (Closes: 38900)
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2784 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2787 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2788 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2792 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2798 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2805 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2811 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2814 help from Julian Gilbey.
2815 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2816 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2817 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2818 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2819 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2820 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2821 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2826 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2832 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2839 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2845 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2851 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2854 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2858 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2861 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2865 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2868 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2872 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2878 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2881 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2885 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2891 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2897 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2900 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2901 may be deleted. (#35845)
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2905 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Various man page enhancements.
2908 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2913 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2916 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2917 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2921 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2924 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2925 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2926 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2928 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2929 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2934 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2940 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * Another very minor typo fix.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2946 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Very minor typo fix.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2952 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2955 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2956 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2960 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2966 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2969 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2970 variables properly (#34850).
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2974 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2980 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2983 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2984 (automatically generated by build process).
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2988 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2990 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2994 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2997 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2998 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3000 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3004 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3007 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3011 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * README: minor typo fix.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3017 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3020 leave it at that. :-)
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3024 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3030 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3036 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3039 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3040 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3041 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3045 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3048 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3052 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3055 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3059 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3062 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3063 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3064 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3065 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3069 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3072 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3073 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3074 Craig Small for spotting this.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3078 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3081 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3082 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3086 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3092 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3095 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3099 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3101 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3102 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3103 working on the last version of debhelper.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3107 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3110 being made. (#23255)
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3114 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3120 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3123 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3127 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3130 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3131 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3132 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3133 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3137 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3140 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3141 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3142 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3143 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3145 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3146 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3148 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3153 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3159 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3165 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3168 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3169 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3170 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3171 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3172 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3173 suidregister actually supports it.
3174 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3175 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3179 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3186 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3189 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3190 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3191 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3192 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3193 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3194 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3195 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3199 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3201 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3202 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3206 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3209 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3210 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3211 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3212 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3216 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3219 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3221 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3222 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3223 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3224 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3225 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3226 effect, either. (#30118)
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3230 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3236 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3239 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3240 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3244 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3250 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3253 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3254 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3255 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3256 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3260 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3263 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3264 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3268 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3274 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3277 packages, painlessly.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3281 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3287 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3293 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3299 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * The perl conversion is complete.
3303 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3305 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3306 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3307 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3312 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3315 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3316 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3317 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3321 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3324 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3326 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3328 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3329 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3333 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3336 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3337 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3341 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3347 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3350 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3351 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3352 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3353 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3354 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3358 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3361 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3362 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3363 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3364 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3368 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3371 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3375 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3378 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3379 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3380 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3381 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3382 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3383 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3384 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3385 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3389 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3395 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3398 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3399 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3400 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3405 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3408 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3412 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3415 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3419 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3422 sections of shared libraries.
3423 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3424 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3425 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3426 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3427 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3428 things you don't want them to.
3429 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3430 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3434 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3437 shared libraries. (#26414)
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3441 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3443 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3444 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3445 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3446 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3450 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3454 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3456 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3457 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3458 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3459 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3460 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3464 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3467 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3471 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3474 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3475 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3480 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3483 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3487 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3490 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3491 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3492 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3493 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3494 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3496 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3497 remove debian/files properly.
3498 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3499 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3500 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3501 * Removed bogus menu file.
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3505 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3508 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3512 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3515 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3516 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3517 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3518 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3519 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3520 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3524 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3527 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3528 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3529 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3530 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3534 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3541 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3544 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3545 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3547 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3548 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3549 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3550 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3551 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3552 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3556 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3559 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3560 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3561 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3562 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3563 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3564 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3565 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3566 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3567 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3568 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3569 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3570 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3571 passed any switches.
3572 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3576 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3579 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3580 at all for a long while.
3581 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3582 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3583 large chunks in the process.
3584 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3585 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3586 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3591 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3594 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3596 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3601 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3604 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3605 that don't always have the same files in them.
3606 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3607 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3608 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3612 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3616 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3617 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3618 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3619 updating 27 man pages.
3620 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3621 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3622 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3623 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3624 programs act on. (#25247)
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3628 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3632 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3633 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3634 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3635 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3636 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3637 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3642 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3649 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3656 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3659 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3663 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3669 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3672 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3673 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3674 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3675 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3676 package by accident.
3677 * Is version 1.0 next?
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3681 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3684 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3685 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3689 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3692 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3693 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3694 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3695 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3696 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3698 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3703 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3706 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3707 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3711 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3714 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3718 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3721 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3722 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3727 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3733 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3736 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3737 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3742 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3748 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3751 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3752 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3753 past week. Thanks, guys!
3755 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3756 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3757 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3758 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3759 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3760 would do in the same situation.
3761 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3762 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3764 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3766 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3767 permissions changed.
3768 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3769 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3770 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3771 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3772 files are treated identically.
3773 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3774 * Minor man page fixes.
3775 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3776 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3777 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3781 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3784 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3785 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3786 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3787 use -X multiple times, too.
3788 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3789 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3793 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3796 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3797 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3801 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3804 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3808 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3811 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3812 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3813 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3814 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3815 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3816 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3817 shape if you're starting a new package.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3821 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3824 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3828 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3831 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3832 because of missing symlinks.
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3836 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3842 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3845 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3846 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3847 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3848 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3849 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3851 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3852 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3856 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3858 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3859 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3860 to be changed after the fact :-)
3861 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3865 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3868 no version string after the -V.
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3872 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3874 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3875 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3880 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3883 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3887 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3890 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3891 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3892 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3893 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3894 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3895 I always welcome corrections!
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3899 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3905 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3908 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3909 * Documented this new switch.
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3913 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3916 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3917 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3918 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3919 no packages use the old behavior.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3923 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3926 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3927 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3931 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3934 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3938 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3944 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3947 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3951 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3954 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3955 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3956 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3960 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3966 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3969 into the source package by accident.
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3973 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3976 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3977 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3978 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3979 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3980 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3981 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3986 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3990 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3991 inspired to implement some of it.
3992 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3996 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3999 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4003 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4006 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4007 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4011 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4014 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4015 have done.) (#17598)
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4019 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4025 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4031 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4034 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4038 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4041 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4042 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4046 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4049 argument processor in perl.
4050 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4051 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4052 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4053 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4057 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4060 type directories. (#16933)
4061 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4062 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4063 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4064 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4065 are supported. (#16935)
4066 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4071 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4074 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4078 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4082 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4083 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4084 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4085 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4086 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4087 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4091 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4094 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4095 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4097 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4098 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4099 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4100 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4101 a given package, or -i or -a.
4102 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4103 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4104 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4105 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4106 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4107 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4108 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4109 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4110 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4112 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4113 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4114 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4118 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4121 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4122 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4127 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4130 does not have a section.
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4134 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4137 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4138 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4139 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4143 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Fixed typo #16215.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4149 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4152 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4153 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4154 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4155 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4156 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4161 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4164 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4165 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4166 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4171 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4173 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4177 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4183 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4186 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4187 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4188 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4189 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4190 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4191 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4195 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4201 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4204 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4208 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4211 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4212 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4213 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4217 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4220 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4224 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4230 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4233 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4237 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4240 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4244 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4250 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4253 postinst, postrm, etc.
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4257 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4263 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4266 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4267 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4268 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4269 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4270 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4274 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4277 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4278 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4282 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4285 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4289 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4292 installing package files into.
4293 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4298 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4302 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4306 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4312 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4315 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4319 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4322 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4323 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4324 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4325 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4329 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4331 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4332 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4333 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4334 multiple binary packages.
4335 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4336 should rebuild them with this version.
4337 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4341 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4344 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4348 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4351 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4355 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4358 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4359 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4360 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4361 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4362 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4363 debian/README.debian.
4364 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4365 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4366 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4367 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4368 in a few situations.)
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4372 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4378 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4384 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4387 * Fixed several man pages.
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4391 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4394 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4395 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4399 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4402 is ready for general use.
4403 * Added man pages for all commands.
4404 * Multiple binary package support.
4405 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4406 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4407 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4409 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4410 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4411 auto-installed as parameters.
4412 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4414 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4417 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4418 the package build directory it is to act on.
4419 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4420 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4421 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4425 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4427 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4428 ready to replace debstd.
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400