1 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
7 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
13 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
15 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
16 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
17 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
18 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
22 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
25 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
26 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
30 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
36 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
43 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
46 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
51 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
54 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
58 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
61 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
63 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
64 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
68 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
71 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
76 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
79 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
83 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
89 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
91 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
95 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
98 it break hard links (see #188663).
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
102 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
105 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
109 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
115 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
119 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
120 debconf-mergetemplates
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
124 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
127 pod2man. Closes: #184013
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
131 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
134 * Typo, Closes: #183267
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
138 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
141 * Update debhelper(1).
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
145 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
147 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
148 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
149 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
150 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
151 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
152 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
156 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
159 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
160 the shell. Closes: #178524
161 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
165 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
168 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
172 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
175 undocumented.7 links anymore.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
179 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
181 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
182 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
183 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
184 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
185 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
190 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
193 files from installation.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
197 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
200 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
201 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
205 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
208 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
212 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
215 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
219 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
225 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
231 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
235 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
236 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
238 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
242 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
245 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
246 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
247 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
248 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
252 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
254 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
255 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
259 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
262 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
263 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
267 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
271 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
276 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
282 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
284 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
286 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
287 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
288 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
293 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
296 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
297 practice. Closes: #163303
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
301 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
307 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
314 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
316 * The "reverse hangover" release.
317 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
319 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
320 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
321 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
322 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
323 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
327 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
330 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
335 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
341 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
348 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
351 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
356 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
362 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
368 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
374 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
381 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
383 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
384 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
385 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
386 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
387 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
392 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Typo, Closes: #155323
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
398 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
405 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
408 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
409 * Removed dh_installxaw.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
413 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
416 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
417 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
418 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
419 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
420 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
424 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
426 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
427 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
429 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
434 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
436 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
437 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
441 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
444 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
445 right thing. Closes: #150644
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
449 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
456 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
458 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
463 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
465 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
466 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
467 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
472 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
478 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
481 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
485 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
488 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
489 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
494 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
497 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
501 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
507 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
510 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
511 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
515 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
521 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Removing perl warning message.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
527 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
530 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
531 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
532 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
533 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
534 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
535 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
536 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
537 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
541 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
547 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
554 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
557 debconf-mergetemplate.
558 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
559 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
563 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
566 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
567 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
568 dh_install, which ...
569 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
570 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
571 mess, as it uses debian/install.
572 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
573 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
574 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
575 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
576 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
577 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
578 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
579 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
580 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
581 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
582 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
584 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
585 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
586 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
587 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
588 course there's -X ..)
589 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
590 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
591 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
593 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
594 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
595 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
596 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
597 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
602 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
608 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Typo, Closes: #139176
611 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
615 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
621 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
627 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
633 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
639 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
642 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
643 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
644 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
645 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
647 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
648 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
652 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
658 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Typo, Closes: #132454
661 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
665 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
667 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
668 upset. Closes: #131322
670 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
672 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
675 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
676 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
677 line, as well as in debian/rules.
678 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
679 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
680 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
681 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
682 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
683 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
684 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
685 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
686 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
687 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
688 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
689 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
691 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
695 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
697 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
698 - Better indenting of generated code.
699 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
703 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
707 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
708 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
709 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
710 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
711 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
712 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
713 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
717 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
720 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
724 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
727 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
728 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
729 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
730 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
731 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
732 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
733 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
734 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
735 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
736 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
737 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
738 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
739 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
740 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
741 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
746 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
752 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
755 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
756 * fixed dh_testdir man page
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
760 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Typo, Closes: #122679
763 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
764 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
768 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
774 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
777 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
778 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
779 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
780 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
781 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
786 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
788 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
792 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
795 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
799 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
802 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
807 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Typo, Closes: #114135
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
813 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
816 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
820 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
826 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
830 Also some indentation fixes.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
834 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
837 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
838 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
839 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
840 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
841 Closes: #106514, #85520
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
845 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Typo, Closes: #104405
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
851 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
857 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
859 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
863 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
869 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
875 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
878 change it in debhelper v4..
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
882 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
888 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
891 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
895 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
898 is not essential. Closes: #100430
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
902 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
908 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
911 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
912 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
913 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
914 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
915 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
916 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
917 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
918 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
919 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
920 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
921 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
922 prefixed with ".debhelper")
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
926 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
929 look just like shared libs, but are not.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
933 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
940 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
943 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
944 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
945 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
946 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
947 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
948 program those options go to. So, for example,
949 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
950 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
951 something complex. Closes: #89311
952 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
956 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
959 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
960 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
961 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
965 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
968 through loop. Closes: #98598
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
972 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Missing semi-colon.
975 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
976 this (dh_* should be called, really).
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
980 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
983 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
984 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
985 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
989 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
992 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
993 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
997 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1000 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1004 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1007 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1008 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1012 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1015 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1016 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1017 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1021 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1024 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1025 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1026 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1030 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1033 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1037 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1043 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1049 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1055 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1061 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1064 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1068 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1071 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1072 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1073 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1074 followed. Closes: #85483
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1078 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1080 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1081 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1082 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1086 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1089 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1090 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1091 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1092 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1093 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1094 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1095 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1096 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1097 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1098 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1099 Closes: #88464, #77743
1100 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1101 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1102 us to deal with that gracefully.
1103 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1105 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1106 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1107 a while, Closes: #51225
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1111 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1117 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1120 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1124 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1128 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1133 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1136 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1137 don't make packlist files.
1138 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1139 debhelper coding standards.
1140 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1141 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1145 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1148 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1152 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1155 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1156 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1157 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1158 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1159 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1160 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1161 but is mildly deprecated.
1162 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1163 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1164 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1165 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1166 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1167 switching to statoverrides..
1168 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1169 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1170 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1171 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1172 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1173 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1175 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1176 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1177 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1178 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1179 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1180 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1181 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1182 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1183 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1185 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1186 variable names, pod man pages).
1187 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1188 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1189 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1190 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1191 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1192 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1193 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1197 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1203 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1210 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1213 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1217 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1219 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1220 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1221 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1225 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1227 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1228 they were previously ignored.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1232 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1234 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1235 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1239 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1241 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1242 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1243 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1247 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1249 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1253 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1255 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1256 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1260 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1262 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1263 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1264 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1265 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1266 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1267 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1268 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1269 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1270 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1271 it is an obsolete program.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1275 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1277 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1281 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1285 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1287 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1291 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1293 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1295 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1297 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1301 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1307 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * typo: Closes, #78567
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1313 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1319 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1325 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1328 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1329 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1330 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1331 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1332 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1336 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1339 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1344 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1347 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1348 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1349 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1350 backwards-compatability.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1354 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1357 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1358 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1359 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1360 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1361 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1362 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1364 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1365 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1366 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1368 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1370 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1371 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1372 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1373 should now be raised to severity important..
1374 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1375 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1379 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1382 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1387 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1393 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1399 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1405 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1412 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1415 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1416 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1417 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1418 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1422 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1428 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1431 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1432 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1433 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1434 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1435 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1436 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1441 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1444 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1448 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1454 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1457 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1462 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1465 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1466 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1467 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1468 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1472 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1476 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1479 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1482 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1483 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1486 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1488 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1489 the TODO entry about it.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1493 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1500 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1503 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1504 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1508 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1511 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1512 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1513 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1514 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1518 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1524 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1531 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1534 (this appears to be logal).
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1538 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1541 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1542 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1543 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1544 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1548 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1554 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1557 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1558 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1559 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1560 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1564 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1570 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1573 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1577 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1584 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1587 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1588 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1589 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1594 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1601 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1607 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1610 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1611 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1612 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1613 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1614 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1615 notice until v2 is complete.
1616 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1617 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1618 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1619 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1620 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1621 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1623 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1624 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1625 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1626 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1630 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1636 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1643 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1646 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1650 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1657 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1660 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1661 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1662 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1663 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1668 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1671 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1672 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1673 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1678 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1681 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1682 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1686 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1689 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1693 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1696 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1700 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1707 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1710 depend on the build and install targets.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1714 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1717 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1721 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1728 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1734 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1740 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1743 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1744 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1745 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1746 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1747 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1748 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1750 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1751 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1752 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1753 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1754 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1755 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1756 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1760 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1766 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1772 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1775 right place. Closes: #55065
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1779 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1786 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1789 * Copyright date updates.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1793 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1796 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1801 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1807 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1814 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1820 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1826 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1832 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1835 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1836 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1837 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1838 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1839 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1840 bits until all files have been registered.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1844 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_installmanpages:
1847 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1848 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1849 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1850 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1851 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1852 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1853 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1854 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1855 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1856 otherwise change the result at all.
1858 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1859 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1860 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1861 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1862 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1867 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1873 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1876 act on files that don't exist.
1877 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1878 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1879 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1881 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1882 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1883 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1884 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1888 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1894 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1900 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1903 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1907 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1910 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1912 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1913 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1914 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1918 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1921 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1922 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1923 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1924 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1925 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1926 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1927 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1929 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1931 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1935 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1942 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1948 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1954 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1957 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1961 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1967 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1973 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1976 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1977 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1978 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1979 I made some changes, though:
1980 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1981 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1982 that is a clear violation of policy.
1983 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1984 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1985 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1986 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1987 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1988 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1989 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1990 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1991 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1993 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1997 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2003 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2006 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2010 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2013 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2014 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2019 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2025 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2032 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2035 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2036 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2037 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2038 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2039 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2040 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2041 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2045 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2051 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2055 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2056 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2060 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2066 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2069 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2073 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2076 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2077 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2081 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2083 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2088 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2092 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2096 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2099 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2100 for the dependancies to be generated.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2104 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2107 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2111 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2114 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2115 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2116 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2121 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2124 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2125 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2129 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2135 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2141 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2144 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2148 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2154 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2157 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2158 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2159 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2160 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2161 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2162 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2163 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2164 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2165 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2166 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2167 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2168 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2172 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2175 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2176 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2178 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2179 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2180 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2181 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2182 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2183 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2185 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2186 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2190 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2193 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2197 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2204 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2207 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2212 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2215 for building debhelper.
2216 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2220 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2227 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2230 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2234 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2237 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2238 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2239 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2240 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2241 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2242 it's always available.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2246 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2249 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2250 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2251 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2255 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2258 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2259 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2263 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2269 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2272 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2276 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2282 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2285 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2286 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2287 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2291 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2294 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2299 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2302 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2303 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2305 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2306 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2310 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2316 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2322 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2325 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2329 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2332 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2333 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2335 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2339 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2342 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2343 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2344 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2348 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2351 things if CDPATH is set.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2355 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2361 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2364 seems to make sense for the transition.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2368 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2371 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2376 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2379 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2380 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2384 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2387 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2391 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2394 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2395 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2396 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2397 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2401 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2407 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2410 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2411 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2412 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2413 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2414 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2415 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2416 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2417 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2418 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2419 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2424 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2427 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2428 * README: mention doc/v2
2429 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2430 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2434 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2436 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2437 be using this script RSN.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2441 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2444 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2445 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2446 more than 1 init script.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2450 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2453 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2457 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Changed perl version detection.
2460 * Changed call to find.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2464 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2467 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2469 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2474 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Really include dh_installpam.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2480 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2483 * Wrote man page for same.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2487 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2490 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2491 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2496 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2503 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2506 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2507 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2508 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2509 x bit was being set!
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2513 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2516 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2517 well. (Closes: 38900)
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2521 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2524 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2525 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2529 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2535 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2542 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2548 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2551 help from Julian Gilbey.
2552 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2553 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2554 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2555 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2556 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2557 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2558 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2563 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2569 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2576 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2582 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2588 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2591 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2595 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2598 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2602 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2605 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2609 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2615 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2618 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2622 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2628 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2634 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2637 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2638 may be deleted. (#35845)
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2642 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Various man page enhancements.
2645 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2650 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2653 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2654 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2658 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2661 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2662 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2663 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2665 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2666 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2671 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2677 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Another very minor typo fix.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2683 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Very minor typo fix.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2689 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2692 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2693 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2697 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2703 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2706 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2707 variables properly (#34850).
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2711 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2717 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2720 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2721 (automatically generated by build process).
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2725 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2727 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2731 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2734 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2735 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2737 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2741 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2744 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2748 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * README: minor typo fix.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2754 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2757 leave it at that. :-)
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2761 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2767 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2773 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2776 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2777 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2778 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2782 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2785 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2789 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2792 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2796 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2799 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2800 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2801 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2802 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2806 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2809 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2810 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2811 Craig Small for spotting this.
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2815 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2818 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2819 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2823 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2829 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2832 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2836 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2838 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2839 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2840 working on the last version of debhelper.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2844 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2847 being made. (#23255)
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2851 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2857 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2860 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2864 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2867 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2868 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2869 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2870 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2874 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2877 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2878 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2879 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2880 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2882 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2883 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2885 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2890 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2896 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2902 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2905 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2906 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2907 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2908 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2909 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2910 suidregister actually supports it.
2911 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2912 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2916 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2923 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2926 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2927 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2928 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2929 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2930 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2931 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2932 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2936 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2938 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2939 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2943 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2946 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2947 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2948 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2949 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2953 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2956 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2958 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2959 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2960 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2961 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2962 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2963 effect, either. (#30118)
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2967 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2973 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2976 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2977 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2981 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2987 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2990 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2991 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2992 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2993 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2997 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3000 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3001 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3005 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3011 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3014 packages, painlessly.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3018 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3024 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3030 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3036 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * The perl conversion is complete.
3040 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3042 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3043 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3044 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3049 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3052 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3053 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3054 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3058 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3061 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3063 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3065 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3066 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3070 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3073 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3074 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3078 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3084 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3087 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3088 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3089 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3090 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3091 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3095 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3098 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3099 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3100 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3101 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3105 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3108 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3112 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3115 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3116 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3117 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3118 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3119 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3120 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3121 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3122 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3126 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3132 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3135 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3136 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3137 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3142 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3145 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3149 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3152 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3156 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3159 sections of shared libraries.
3160 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3161 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3162 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3163 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3164 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3165 things you don't want them to.
3166 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3167 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3171 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3174 shared libraries. (#26414)
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3178 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3180 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3181 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3182 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3183 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3187 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3191 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3193 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3194 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3195 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3196 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3197 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3201 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3204 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3208 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3211 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3212 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3217 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3220 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3224 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3227 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3228 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3229 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3230 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3231 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3233 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3234 remove debian/files properly.
3235 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3236 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3237 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3238 * Removed bogus menu file.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3242 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3245 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3249 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3252 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3253 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3254 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3255 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3256 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3257 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3261 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3264 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3265 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3266 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3267 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3271 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3278 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3281 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3282 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3284 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3285 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3286 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3287 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3288 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3289 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3293 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3296 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3297 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3298 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3299 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3300 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3301 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3302 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3303 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3304 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3305 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3306 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3307 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3308 passed any switches.
3309 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3313 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3316 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3317 at all for a long while.
3318 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3319 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3320 large chunks in the process.
3321 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3322 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3323 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3328 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3331 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3333 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3338 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3341 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3342 that don't always have the same files in them.
3343 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3344 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3345 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3349 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3353 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3354 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3355 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3356 updating 27 man pages.
3357 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3358 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3359 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3360 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3361 programs act on. (#25247)
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3365 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3369 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3370 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3371 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3372 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3373 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3374 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3379 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3386 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3393 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3396 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3400 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3406 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3409 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3410 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3411 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3412 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3413 package by accident.
3414 * Is version 1.0 next?
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3418 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3421 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3422 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3426 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3429 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3430 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3431 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3432 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3433 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3435 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3440 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3443 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3444 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3448 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3451 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3455 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3458 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3459 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3464 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3470 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3473 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3474 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3479 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3485 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3488 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3489 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3490 past week. Thanks, guys!
3492 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3493 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3494 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3495 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3496 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3497 would do in the same situation.
3498 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3499 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3501 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3503 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3504 permissions changed.
3505 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3506 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3507 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3508 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3509 files are treated identically.
3510 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3511 * Minor man page fixes.
3512 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3513 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3514 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3518 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3521 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3522 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3523 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3524 use -X multiple times, too.
3525 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3526 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3530 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3533 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3534 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3538 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3541 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3545 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3548 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3549 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3550 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3551 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3552 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3553 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3554 shape if you're starting a new package.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3558 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3561 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3565 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3568 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3569 because of missing symlinks.
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3573 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3579 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3582 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3583 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3584 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3585 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3586 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3588 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3589 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3593 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3595 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3596 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3597 to be changed after the fact :-)
3598 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3602 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3604 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3605 no version string after the -V.
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3609 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3611 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3612 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3617 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3620 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3624 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3627 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3628 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3629 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3630 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3631 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3632 I always welcome corrections!
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3636 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3642 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3645 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3646 * Documented this new switch.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3650 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3653 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3654 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3655 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3656 no packages use the old behavior.
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3660 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3663 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3664 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3668 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3671 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3675 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3681 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3684 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3688 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3691 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3692 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3693 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3697 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3703 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3706 into the source package by accident.
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3710 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3713 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3714 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3715 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3716 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3717 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3718 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3723 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3727 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3728 inspired to implement some of it.
3729 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3733 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3736 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3740 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3743 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3744 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3748 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3751 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3752 have done.) (#17598)
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3756 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3762 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3768 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3771 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3775 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3778 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3779 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3783 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3786 argument processor in perl.
3787 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3788 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3789 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3790 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3794 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3797 type directories. (#16933)
3798 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3799 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3800 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3801 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3802 are supported. (#16935)
3803 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3808 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3811 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3815 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3819 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3820 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3821 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3822 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3823 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3824 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3828 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3831 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3832 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3834 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3835 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3836 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3837 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3838 a given package, or -i or -a.
3839 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3840 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3841 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3842 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3843 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3844 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3845 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3846 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3847 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3849 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3850 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3851 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3855 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3858 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3859 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3864 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3867 does not have a section.
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3871 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3874 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3875 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3876 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3880 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * Fixed typo #16215.
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3886 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3889 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3890 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3891 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3892 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3893 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3898 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3901 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3902 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3903 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3908 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3914 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3920 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3923 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3924 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3925 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3926 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3927 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3928 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3932 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3938 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3941 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3945 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3948 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3949 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3950 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3954 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3957 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3961 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3967 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3970 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3974 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3977 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3981 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3987 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3990 postinst, postrm, etc.
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3994 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4000 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4003 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4004 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4005 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4006 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4007 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4011 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4014 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4015 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4019 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4022 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4026 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4029 installing package files into.
4030 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4035 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4039 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4043 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4049 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4052 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4056 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4059 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4060 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4061 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4062 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4066 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4068 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4069 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4070 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4071 multiple binary packages.
4072 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4073 should rebuild them with this version.
4074 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4078 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4081 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4085 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4088 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4092 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4095 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4096 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4097 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4098 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4099 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4100 debian/README.debian.
4101 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4102 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4103 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4104 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4105 in a few situations.)
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4109 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4115 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4121 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4124 * Fixed several man pages.
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4128 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4131 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4132 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4136 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4139 is ready for general use.
4140 * Added man pages for all commands.
4141 * Multiple binary package support.
4142 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4143 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4144 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4146 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4147 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4148 auto-installed as parameters.
4149 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4151 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4154 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4155 the package build directory it is to act on.
4156 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4157 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4158 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4162 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4164 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4165 ready to replace debstd.
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400