1 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Spanish man page updates.
4 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
9 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
15 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
18 * dh_desktop: reindent
19 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
20 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
24 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
30 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
32 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
36 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
38 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
42 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367a
45 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378a
46 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
50 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
56 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
62 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
69 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
72 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
76 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
78 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
79 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
80 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
81 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
82 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
83 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
84 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
86 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
87 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
88 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
89 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
90 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
91 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
92 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
93 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
94 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
95 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
96 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
97 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
98 in the others, and added a few new tests.
99 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
100 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
101 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
105 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
112 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
115 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
119 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
121 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
122 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
126 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
128 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
129 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
133 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
136 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
140 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
146 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
152 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
158 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
161 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
162 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
163 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
167 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
170 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
174 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
177 but occasionally right and necessary.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
181 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
184 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
185 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
186 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
187 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
188 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937a
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
192 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
195 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
197 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
198 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
199 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
200 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
201 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
202 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
203 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
204 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
205 postinst scripts for udebs.
206 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
210 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
213 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
215 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
216 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
220 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
226 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
233 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
235 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
240 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
243 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
247 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
250 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
254 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
257 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
260 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
261 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
265 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
271 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
274 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
278 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
281 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
282 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
283 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
285 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
287 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
288 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
289 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
293 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
296 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
301 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
304 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
305 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
306 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
311 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
317 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
323 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
326 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
327 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
328 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
329 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
330 associated -dbg packages.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
334 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
336 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
337 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
341 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
344 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
348 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
351 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
355 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
358 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
363 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Typo. Closes: #207999
366 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
370 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
373 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
378 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
381 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
385 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
389 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
390 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
391 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
392 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
393 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
394 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
395 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
396 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
397 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
398 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
402 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
405 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
410 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
413 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
414 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
418 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
420 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
421 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
422 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
427 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
430 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
434 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
437 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
441 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
444 out section number. Closes: #204731
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
448 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
455 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
461 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
467 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Typo, Closes: #203907
470 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
471 removal. Closes: #204286
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
475 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
478 renaming. Closes: #203548
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
482 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
484 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
485 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
486 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
490 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
496 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
502 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
508 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
511 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
512 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
513 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
517 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
520 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
521 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
525 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
531 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
533 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
538 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
541 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
546 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
549 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
553 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
556 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
558 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
559 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
563 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
566 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
571 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
574 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
578 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
584 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
586 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
590 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
593 it break hard links (see #188663).
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
597 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
600 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
604 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
610 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
614 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
615 debconf-mergetemplates
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
619 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
622 pod2man. Closes: #184013
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
626 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
629 * Typo, Closes: #183267
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
633 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
636 * Update debhelper(1).
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
640 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
642 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
643 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
644 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
645 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
646 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
647 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
651 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
654 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
655 the shell. Closes: #178524
656 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
660 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
663 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
667 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
670 undocumented.7 links anymore.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
674 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
676 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
677 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
678 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
679 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
680 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
685 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
688 files from installation.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
692 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
695 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
696 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
700 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
703 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
707 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
710 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
714 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
720 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
726 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
730 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
731 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
733 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
737 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
740 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
741 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
742 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
743 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
747 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
749 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
750 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
754 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
757 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
758 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
762 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
766 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
771 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
777 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
781 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
782 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
783 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
788 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
791 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
792 practice. Closes: #163303
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
796 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
802 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
809 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
811 * The "reverse hangover" release.
812 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
814 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
815 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
816 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
817 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
818 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
822 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
825 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
830 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
836 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
843 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
846 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
851 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
857 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
863 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
869 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
876 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
879 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
880 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
881 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
882 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
887 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
889 * Typo, Closes: #155323
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
893 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
900 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
903 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
904 * Removed dh_installxaw.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
908 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
911 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
912 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
913 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
914 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
915 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
919 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
922 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
924 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
929 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
931 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
932 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
936 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
939 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
940 right thing. Closes: #150644
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
944 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
951 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
953 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
958 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
961 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
962 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
967 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
973 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
976 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
980 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
983 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
984 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
989 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
992 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
996 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1002 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1005 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1006 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1010 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1016 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Removing perl warning message.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1022 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1025 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1026 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1027 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1028 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1029 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1030 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1031 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1032 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1036 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1042 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1049 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1052 debconf-mergetemplate.
1053 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1054 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1058 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1061 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1062 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1063 dh_install, which ...
1064 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1065 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1066 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1067 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1068 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1069 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1070 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1071 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1072 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1073 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1074 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1075 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1076 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1077 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1078 other minor changes.
1079 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1080 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1081 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1082 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1083 course there's -X ..)
1084 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1085 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1086 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1088 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1089 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1090 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1091 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1092 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1097 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1103 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1106 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1110 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1116 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1122 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1128 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1134 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1137 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1138 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1139 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1140 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1142 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1143 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1147 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1153 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1156 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1160 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1163 upset. Closes: #131322
1165 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1167 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1170 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1171 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1172 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1173 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1174 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1175 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1176 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1177 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1178 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1179 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1180 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1181 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1182 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1183 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1184 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1186 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1190 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1193 - Better indenting of generated code.
1194 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1198 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1202 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1203 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1204 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1205 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1206 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1207 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1208 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1212 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1215 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1219 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1222 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1223 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1224 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1225 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1226 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1227 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1228 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1229 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1230 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1231 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1232 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1233 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1234 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1235 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1236 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1241 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1247 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1250 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1251 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1255 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1258 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1259 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1263 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1269 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1272 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1273 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1274 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1275 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1276 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1281 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1287 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1290 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1294 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1297 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1302 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1308 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1311 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1315 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1321 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1325 Also some indentation fixes.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1329 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1332 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1333 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1334 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1335 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1336 Closes: #106514, #85520
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1340 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1346 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1352 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1358 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1364 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1370 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1373 change it in debhelper v4..
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1377 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1383 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1386 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1390 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1393 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1397 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1403 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1406 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1407 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1408 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1409 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1410 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1411 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1412 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1413 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1414 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1415 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1416 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1417 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1421 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1424 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1428 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1435 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1438 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1439 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1440 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1441 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1442 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1443 program those options go to. So, for example,
1444 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1445 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1446 something complex. Closes: #89311
1447 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1451 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1454 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1455 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1456 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1460 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1463 through loop. Closes: #98598
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1467 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Missing semi-colon.
1470 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1471 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1475 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1478 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1479 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1480 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1484 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1487 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1488 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1492 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1495 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1499 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1502 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1503 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1507 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1510 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1511 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1512 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1516 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1519 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1520 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1521 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1525 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1528 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1532 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1538 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1544 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1550 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1556 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1559 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1563 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1566 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1567 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1568 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1569 followed. Closes: #85483
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1573 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1575 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1576 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1577 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1581 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1584 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1585 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1586 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1587 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1588 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1589 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1590 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1591 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1592 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1593 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1594 Closes: #88464, #77743
1595 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1596 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1597 us to deal with that gracefully.
1598 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1600 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1601 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1602 a while, Closes: #51225
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1606 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1612 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1615 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1619 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1623 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1628 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1631 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1632 don't make packlist files.
1633 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1634 debhelper coding standards.
1635 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1636 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1640 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1643 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1647 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1650 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1651 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1652 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1653 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1654 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1655 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1656 but is mildly deprecated.
1657 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1658 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1659 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1660 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1661 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1662 switching to statoverrides..
1663 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1664 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1665 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1666 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1667 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1668 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1670 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1671 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1672 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1673 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1674 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1675 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1676 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1677 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1678 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1680 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1681 variable names, pod man pages).
1682 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1683 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1684 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1685 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1686 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1687 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1688 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1692 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1698 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1705 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1708 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1712 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1714 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1715 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1716 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1720 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1722 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1723 they were previously ignored.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1727 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1729 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1730 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1734 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1736 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1737 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1738 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1742 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1744 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1748 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1750 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1751 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1755 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1757 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1758 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1759 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1760 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1761 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1762 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1763 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1764 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1765 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1766 it is an obsolete program.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1770 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1772 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1776 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1780 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1782 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1786 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1788 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1790 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1792 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1796 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1802 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * typo: Closes, #78567
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1808 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1814 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1820 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1823 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1824 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1825 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1826 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1827 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1831 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1834 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1839 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1842 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1843 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1844 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1845 backwards-compatability.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1849 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1852 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1853 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1854 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1855 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1856 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1857 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1859 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1860 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1861 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1863 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1865 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1866 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1867 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1868 should now be raised to severity important..
1869 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1870 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1874 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1877 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1882 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1888 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1894 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1900 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1907 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1910 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1911 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1912 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1913 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1917 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1923 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1926 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1927 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1928 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1929 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1930 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1931 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1936 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1939 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1943 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1949 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1952 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1957 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1960 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1961 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1962 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1963 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1967 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1971 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1974 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1977 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1978 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1981 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1983 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1984 the TODO entry about it.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1988 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1995 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1998 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1999 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2003 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2006 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2007 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2008 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2009 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2013 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2019 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2026 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2029 (this appears to be logal).
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2033 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2036 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2037 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2038 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2039 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2043 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2049 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2052 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2053 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2054 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2055 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2059 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2065 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2068 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2072 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2079 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2082 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2083 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2084 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2089 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2096 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2102 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2105 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2106 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2107 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2108 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2109 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2110 notice until v2 is complete.
2111 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2112 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2113 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2114 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2115 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2116 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2118 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2119 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2120 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2121 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2125 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2131 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2138 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2141 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2145 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2152 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2155 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2156 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2157 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2158 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2163 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2166 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2167 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2168 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2173 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2176 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2177 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2181 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2184 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2188 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2191 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2195 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2202 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2205 depend on the build and install targets.
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2209 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2212 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2216 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2223 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2229 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2235 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2238 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2239 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2240 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2241 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2242 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2243 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2245 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2246 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2247 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2248 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2249 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2250 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2251 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2255 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2261 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2267 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2270 right place. Closes: #55065
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2274 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2281 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2284 * Copyright date updates.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2288 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2291 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2296 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2302 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2309 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2315 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2321 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2327 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2330 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2331 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2332 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2333 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2334 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2335 bits until all files have been registered.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2339 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_installmanpages:
2342 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2343 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2344 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2345 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2346 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2347 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2348 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2349 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2350 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2351 otherwise change the result at all.
2353 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2354 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2355 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2356 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2357 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2362 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2368 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2371 act on files that don't exist.
2372 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2373 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2374 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2376 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2377 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2378 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2379 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2383 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2389 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2395 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2398 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2402 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2405 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2407 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2408 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2409 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2413 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2416 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2417 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2418 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2419 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2420 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2421 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2422 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2424 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2426 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2430 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2437 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2443 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2449 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2452 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2456 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2462 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2468 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2471 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2472 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2473 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2474 I made some changes, though:
2475 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2476 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2477 that is a clear violation of policy.
2478 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2479 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2480 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2481 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2482 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2483 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2484 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2485 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2486 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2488 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2492 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2498 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2501 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2505 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2508 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2509 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2514 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2520 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2527 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2530 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2531 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2532 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2533 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2534 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2535 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2536 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2540 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2546 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2550 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2551 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2555 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2561 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2564 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2568 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2571 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2572 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2576 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2578 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2583 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2587 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2591 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2594 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2595 for the dependancies to be generated.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2599 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2602 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2606 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2609 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2610 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2611 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2616 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2619 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2620 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2624 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2630 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2636 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2639 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2643 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2649 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2652 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2653 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2654 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2655 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2656 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2657 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2658 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2659 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2660 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2661 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2662 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2663 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2667 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2670 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2671 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2673 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2674 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2675 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2676 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2677 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2678 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2680 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2681 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2685 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2688 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2692 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2699 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2702 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2707 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2710 for building debhelper.
2711 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2715 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2722 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2725 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2729 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2732 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2733 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2734 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2735 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2736 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2737 it's always available.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2741 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2744 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2745 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2746 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2750 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2753 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2754 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2758 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2764 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2767 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2771 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2777 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2780 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2781 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2782 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2786 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2789 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2794 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2797 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2798 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2800 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2801 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2805 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2811 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2817 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2820 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2824 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2827 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2828 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2830 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2834 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2837 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2838 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2839 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2843 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2846 things if CDPATH is set.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2850 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2856 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2859 seems to make sense for the transition.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2863 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2866 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2871 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2874 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2875 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2879 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2882 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2886 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2889 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2890 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2891 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2892 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2896 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2902 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2905 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2906 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2907 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2908 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2909 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2910 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2911 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2912 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2913 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2914 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2919 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2922 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2923 * README: mention doc/v2
2924 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2925 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2929 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2931 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2932 be using this script RSN.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2936 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2939 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2940 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2941 more than 1 init script.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2945 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2948 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2952 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Changed perl version detection.
2955 * Changed call to find.
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2959 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2962 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2964 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2969 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Really include dh_installpam.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2975 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2978 * Wrote man page for same.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2982 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2985 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2986 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2991 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2998 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3001 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3002 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3003 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3004 x bit was being set!
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3008 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3011 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3012 well. (Closes: 38900)
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3016 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3019 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3020 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3024 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3030 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3037 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3043 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3046 help from Julian Gilbey.
3047 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3048 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3049 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3050 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3051 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3052 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3053 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3058 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3064 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3071 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3077 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3083 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3086 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3090 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3093 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3097 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3100 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3104 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3110 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3113 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3117 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3123 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3129 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3132 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3133 may be deleted. (#35845)
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3137 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * Various man page enhancements.
3140 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3145 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3148 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3149 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3153 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3156 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3157 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3158 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3160 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3161 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3166 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3172 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * Another very minor typo fix.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3178 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Very minor typo fix.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3184 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3187 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3188 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3192 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3198 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3201 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3202 variables properly (#34850).
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3206 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3212 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3215 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3216 (automatically generated by build process).
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3220 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3222 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3226 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3229 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3230 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3232 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3236 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3239 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3243 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * README: minor typo fix.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3249 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3252 leave it at that. :-)
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3256 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3262 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3268 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3271 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3272 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3273 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3277 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3280 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3284 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3287 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3291 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3294 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3295 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3296 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3297 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3301 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3304 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3305 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3306 Craig Small for spotting this.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3310 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3313 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3314 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3318 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3324 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3327 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3331 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3333 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3334 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3335 working on the last version of debhelper.
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3339 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3342 being made. (#23255)
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3346 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3352 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3355 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3359 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3362 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3363 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3364 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3365 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3369 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3372 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3373 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3374 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3375 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3377 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3378 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3380 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3385 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3391 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3397 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3400 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3401 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3402 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3403 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3404 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3405 suidregister actually supports it.
3406 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3407 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3411 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3418 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3421 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3422 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3423 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3424 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3425 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3426 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3427 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3431 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3433 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3434 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3438 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3441 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3442 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3443 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3444 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3448 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3451 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3453 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3454 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3455 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3456 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3457 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3458 effect, either. (#30118)
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3462 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3468 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3471 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3472 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3476 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3482 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3485 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3486 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3487 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3488 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3492 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3495 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3496 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3500 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3506 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3509 packages, painlessly.
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3513 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3519 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3525 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3531 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * The perl conversion is complete.
3535 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3537 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3538 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3539 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3544 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3547 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3548 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3549 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3553 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3556 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3558 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3560 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3561 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3565 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3568 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3569 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3573 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3579 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3582 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3583 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3584 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3585 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3586 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3590 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3593 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3594 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3595 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3596 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3600 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3603 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3607 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3610 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3611 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3612 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3613 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3614 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3615 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3616 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3617 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3621 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3627 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3630 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3631 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3632 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3637 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3640 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3644 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3647 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3651 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3654 sections of shared libraries.
3655 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3656 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3657 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3658 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3659 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3660 things you don't want them to.
3661 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3662 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3666 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3669 shared libraries. (#26414)
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3673 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3675 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3676 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3677 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3678 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3682 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3686 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3688 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3689 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3690 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3691 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3692 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3696 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3699 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3703 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3706 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3707 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3712 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3715 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3719 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3722 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3723 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3724 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3725 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3726 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3728 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3729 remove debian/files properly.
3730 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3731 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3732 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3733 * Removed bogus menu file.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3737 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3740 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3744 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3747 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3748 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3749 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3750 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3751 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3752 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3756 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3759 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3760 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3761 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3762 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3766 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3773 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3776 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3777 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3779 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3780 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3781 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3782 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3783 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3784 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3788 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3791 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3792 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3793 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3794 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3795 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3796 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3797 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3798 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3799 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3800 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3801 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3802 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3803 passed any switches.
3804 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3808 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3811 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3812 at all for a long while.
3813 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3814 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3815 large chunks in the process.
3816 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3817 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3818 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3823 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3826 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3828 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3833 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3836 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3837 that don't always have the same files in them.
3838 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3839 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3840 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3844 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3848 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3849 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3850 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3851 updating 27 man pages.
3852 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3853 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3854 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3855 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3856 programs act on. (#25247)
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3860 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3864 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3865 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3866 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3867 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3868 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3869 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3874 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3881 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3888 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3891 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3895 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3901 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3904 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3905 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3906 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3907 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3908 package by accident.
3909 * Is version 1.0 next?
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3913 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3916 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3917 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3921 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3924 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3925 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3926 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3927 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3928 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3930 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3935 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3938 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3939 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3943 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3946 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3950 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3953 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3954 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3959 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3965 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3968 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3969 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3974 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3980 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3983 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3984 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3985 past week. Thanks, guys!
3987 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3988 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3989 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3990 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3991 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3992 would do in the same situation.
3993 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3994 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3996 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3998 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3999 permissions changed.
4000 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4001 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4002 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4003 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4004 files are treated identically.
4005 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4006 * Minor man page fixes.
4007 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4008 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4009 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4013 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4016 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4017 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4018 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4019 use -X multiple times, too.
4020 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4021 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4025 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4028 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4029 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4033 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4036 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4040 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4043 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4044 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4045 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4046 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4047 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4048 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4049 shape if you're starting a new package.
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4053 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4056 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4060 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4063 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4064 because of missing symlinks.
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4068 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4074 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4077 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4078 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4079 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4080 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4081 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4083 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4084 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4088 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4090 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4091 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4092 to be changed after the fact :-)
4093 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4097 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4099 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4100 no version string after the -V.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4104 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4106 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4107 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4112 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4115 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4119 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4122 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4123 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4124 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4125 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4126 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4127 I always welcome corrections!
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4131 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4137 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4140 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4141 * Documented this new switch.
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4145 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4148 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4149 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4150 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4151 no packages use the old behavior.
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4155 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4158 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4159 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4163 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4166 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4170 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4176 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4179 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4183 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4186 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4187 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4188 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4192 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4198 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4201 into the source package by accident.
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4205 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4208 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4209 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4210 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4211 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4212 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4213 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4218 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4222 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4223 inspired to implement some of it.
4224 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4228 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4231 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4235 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4238 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4239 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4243 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4246 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4247 have done.) (#17598)
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4251 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4257 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4263 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4266 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4270 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4273 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4274 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4278 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4281 argument processor in perl.
4282 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4283 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4284 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4285 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4289 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4292 type directories. (#16933)
4293 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4294 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4295 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4296 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4297 are supported. (#16935)
4298 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4303 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4306 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4310 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4314 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4315 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4316 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4317 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4318 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4319 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4323 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4326 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4327 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4329 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4330 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4331 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4332 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4333 a given package, or -i or -a.
4334 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4335 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4336 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4337 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4338 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4339 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4340 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4341 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4342 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4344 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4345 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4346 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4350 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4353 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4354 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4359 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4362 does not have a section.
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4366 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4369 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4370 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4371 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4375 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4377 * Fixed typo #16215.
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4381 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4384 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4385 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4386 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4387 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4388 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4393 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4396 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4397 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4398 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4403 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4409 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4415 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4418 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4419 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4420 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4421 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4422 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4423 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4427 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4433 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4436 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4440 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4443 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4444 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4445 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4449 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4452 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4456 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4462 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4465 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4469 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4472 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4476 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4482 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4485 postinst, postrm, etc.
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4489 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4495 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4498 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4499 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4500 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4501 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4502 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4506 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4509 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4510 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4514 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4517 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4521 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4524 installing package files into.
4525 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4530 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4534 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4538 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4544 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4547 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4551 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4554 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4555 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4556 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4557 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4561 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4563 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4564 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4565 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4566 multiple binary packages.
4567 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4568 should rebuild them with this version.
4569 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4573 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4576 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4580 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4583 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4587 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4590 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4591 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4592 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4593 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4594 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4595 debian/README.debian.
4596 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4597 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4598 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4599 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4600 in a few situations.)
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4604 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4610 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4616 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4619 * Fixed several man pages.
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4623 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4626 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4627 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4631 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4634 is ready for general use.
4635 * Added man pages for all commands.
4636 * Multiple binary package support.
4637 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4638 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4639 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4641 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4642 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4643 auto-installed as parameters.
4644 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4646 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4649 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4650 the package build directory it is to act on.
4651 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4652 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4653 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4657 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4659 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4660 ready to replace debstd.
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400