1 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
4 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
5 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
6 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
10 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
13 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
17 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
20 but occasionally right and necessary.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
24 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
26 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
27 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
28 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
29 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
30 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
31 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937a
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
35 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
38 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
40 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
41 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
42 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
43 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
44 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
45 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
46 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
47 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
48 postinst scripts for udebs.
49 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
53 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
55 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
56 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
58 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
59 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
63 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
69 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
76 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
83 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
86 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
90 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
93 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
97 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
100 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
103 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
104 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
108 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
114 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
117 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
121 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
124 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
125 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
126 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
128 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
130 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
131 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
132 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
136 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
139 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
144 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
147 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
148 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
149 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
154 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
160 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
166 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
169 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
170 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
171 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
172 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
173 associated -dbg packages.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
177 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
180 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
184 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
187 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
191 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
194 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
198 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
200 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
201 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
206 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Typo. Closes: #207999
209 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
213 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
216 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
221 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
224 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
228 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
232 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
233 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
234 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
235 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
236 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
237 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
238 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
239 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
240 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
241 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
245 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
248 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
253 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
256 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
257 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
261 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
264 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
265 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
270 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
273 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
277 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
280 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
284 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
287 out section number. Closes: #204731
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
291 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
298 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
304 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
310 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Typo, Closes: #203907
313 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
314 removal. Closes: #204286
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
318 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
321 renaming. Closes: #203548
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
325 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
328 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
329 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
333 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
339 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
345 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
347 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
351 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
354 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
355 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
356 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
360 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
363 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
364 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
368 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
374 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
381 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
383 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
384 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
389 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
392 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
396 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
399 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
401 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
402 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
406 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
409 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
414 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
417 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
421 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
427 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
429 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
433 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
436 it break hard links (see #188663).
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
440 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
443 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
447 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
453 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
457 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
458 debconf-mergetemplates
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
462 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
465 pod2man. Closes: #184013
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
469 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
472 * Typo, Closes: #183267
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
476 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
479 * Update debhelper(1).
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
483 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
485 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
486 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
487 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
488 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
489 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
490 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
494 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
497 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
498 the shell. Closes: #178524
499 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
503 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
506 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
510 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
513 undocumented.7 links anymore.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
517 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
519 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
520 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
521 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
522 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
523 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
528 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
531 files from installation.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
535 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
538 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
539 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
543 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
546 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
550 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
553 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
557 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
563 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
569 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
573 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
574 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
576 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
580 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
583 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
584 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
585 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
586 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
590 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
592 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
593 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
597 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
600 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
601 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
605 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
609 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
614 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
620 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
624 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
625 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
626 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
631 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
634 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
635 practice. Closes: #163303
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
639 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
645 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
652 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
654 * The "reverse hangover" release.
655 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
657 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
658 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
659 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
660 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
661 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
665 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
668 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
673 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
675 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
679 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
686 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
689 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
694 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
700 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
706 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
712 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
719 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
722 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
723 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
724 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
725 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
730 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Typo, Closes: #155323
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
736 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
743 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
746 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
747 * Removed dh_installxaw.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
751 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
754 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
755 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
756 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
757 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
758 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
762 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
765 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
767 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
772 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
774 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
775 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
779 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
781 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
782 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
783 right thing. Closes: #150644
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
787 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
794 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
796 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
801 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
804 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
805 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
810 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
816 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
819 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
823 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
826 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
827 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
832 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
834 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
835 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
839 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
845 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
848 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
849 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
853 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
859 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Removing perl warning message.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
865 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
868 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
869 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
870 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
871 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
872 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
873 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
874 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
875 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
879 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
885 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
892 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
895 debconf-mergetemplate.
896 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
897 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
901 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
904 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
905 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
906 dh_install, which ...
907 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
908 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
909 mess, as it uses debian/install.
910 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
911 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
912 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
913 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
914 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
915 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
916 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
917 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
918 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
919 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
920 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
922 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
923 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
924 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
925 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
926 course there's -X ..)
927 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
928 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
929 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
931 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
932 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
933 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
934 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
935 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
940 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
946 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Typo, Closes: #139176
949 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
953 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
959 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
961 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
965 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
971 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
977 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
980 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
981 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
982 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
983 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
985 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
986 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
990 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
992 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
996 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Typo, Closes: #132454
999 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1003 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1006 upset. Closes: #131322
1008 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1010 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1013 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1014 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1015 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1016 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1017 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1018 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1019 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1020 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1021 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1022 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1023 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1024 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1025 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1026 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1027 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1029 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1033 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1036 - Better indenting of generated code.
1037 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1041 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1045 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1046 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1047 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1048 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1049 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1050 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1051 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1055 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1058 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1062 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1065 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1066 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1067 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1068 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1069 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1070 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1071 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1072 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1073 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1074 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1075 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1076 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1077 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1078 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1079 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1084 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1090 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1093 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1094 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1098 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1101 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1102 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1106 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1112 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1115 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1116 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1117 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1118 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1119 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1124 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1130 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1133 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1137 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1140 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1145 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1151 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1154 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1158 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1164 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1168 Also some indentation fixes.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1172 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1175 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1176 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1177 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1178 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1179 Closes: #106514, #85520
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1183 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1189 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1195 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1201 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1207 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1213 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1216 change it in debhelper v4..
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1220 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1226 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1229 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1233 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1236 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1240 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1246 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1249 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1250 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1251 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1252 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1253 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1254 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1255 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1256 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1257 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1258 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1259 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1260 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1264 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1267 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1271 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1278 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1281 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1282 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1283 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1284 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1285 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1286 program those options go to. So, for example,
1287 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1288 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1289 something complex. Closes: #89311
1290 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1294 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1297 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1298 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1299 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1303 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1306 through loop. Closes: #98598
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1310 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Missing semi-colon.
1313 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1314 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1318 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1321 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1322 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1323 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1327 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1330 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1331 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1335 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1338 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1342 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1345 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1346 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1350 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1353 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1354 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1355 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1359 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1362 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1363 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1364 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1368 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1371 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1375 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1381 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1387 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1393 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1399 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1402 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1406 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1409 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1410 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1411 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1412 followed. Closes: #85483
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1416 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1418 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1419 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1420 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1424 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1427 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1428 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1429 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1430 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1431 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1432 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1433 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1434 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1435 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1436 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1437 Closes: #88464, #77743
1438 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1439 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1440 us to deal with that gracefully.
1441 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1443 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1444 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1445 a while, Closes: #51225
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1449 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1455 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1458 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1462 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1466 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1471 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1474 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1475 don't make packlist files.
1476 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1477 debhelper coding standards.
1478 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1479 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1483 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1486 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1490 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1493 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1494 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1495 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1496 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1497 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1498 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1499 but is mildly deprecated.
1500 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1501 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1502 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1503 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1504 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1505 switching to statoverrides..
1506 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1507 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1508 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1509 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1510 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1511 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1513 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1514 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1515 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1516 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1517 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1518 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1519 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1520 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1521 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1523 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1524 variable names, pod man pages).
1525 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1526 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1527 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1528 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1529 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1530 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1531 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1535 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1541 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1548 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1551 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1555 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1557 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1558 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1559 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1563 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1565 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1566 they were previously ignored.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1570 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1572 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1573 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1577 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1579 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1580 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1581 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1585 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1587 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1591 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1593 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1594 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1598 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1600 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1601 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1602 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1603 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1604 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1605 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1606 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1607 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1608 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1609 it is an obsolete program.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1613 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1615 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1619 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1623 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1625 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1629 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1631 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1633 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1635 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1639 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1645 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * typo: Closes, #78567
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1651 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1657 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1663 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1666 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1667 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1668 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1669 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1670 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1674 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1677 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1682 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1685 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1686 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1687 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1688 backwards-compatability.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1692 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1695 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1696 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1697 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1698 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1699 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1700 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1702 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1703 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1704 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1706 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1708 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1709 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1710 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1711 should now be raised to severity important..
1712 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1713 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1717 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1720 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1725 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1731 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1737 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1743 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1750 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1753 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1754 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1755 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1756 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1760 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1766 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1769 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1770 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1771 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1772 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1773 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1774 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1779 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1782 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1786 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1792 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1795 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1800 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1803 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1804 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1805 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1806 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1810 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1814 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1817 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1820 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1821 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1824 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1826 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1827 the TODO entry about it.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1831 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1838 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1841 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1842 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1846 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1849 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1850 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1851 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1852 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1856 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1862 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1869 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1872 (this appears to be logal).
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1876 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1879 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1880 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1881 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1882 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1886 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1892 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1895 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1896 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1897 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1898 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1902 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1908 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1911 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1915 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1922 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1925 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1926 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1927 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1932 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1939 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1945 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1948 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1949 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1950 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1951 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1952 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1953 notice until v2 is complete.
1954 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1955 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1956 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1957 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1958 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1959 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1961 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1962 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1963 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1964 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1968 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1974 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1981 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1984 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1988 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1995 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1998 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1999 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2000 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2001 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2006 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2009 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2010 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2011 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2019 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2020 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2024 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2027 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2031 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2034 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2038 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2045 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2048 depend on the build and install targets.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2052 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2055 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2059 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2066 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2072 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2078 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2081 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2082 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2083 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2084 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2085 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2086 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2088 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2089 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2090 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2091 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2092 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2093 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2094 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2098 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2104 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2110 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2113 right place. Closes: #55065
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2117 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2124 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2127 * Copyright date updates.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2131 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2134 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2139 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2145 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2152 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2158 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2164 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2170 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2173 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2174 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2175 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2176 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2177 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2178 bits until all files have been registered.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2182 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_installmanpages:
2185 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2186 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2187 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2188 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2189 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2190 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2191 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2192 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2193 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2194 otherwise change the result at all.
2196 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2197 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2198 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2199 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2200 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2205 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2211 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2214 act on files that don't exist.
2215 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2216 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2217 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2219 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2220 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2221 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2222 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2226 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2232 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2238 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2241 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2245 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2248 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2250 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2251 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2252 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2256 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2259 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2260 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2261 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2262 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2263 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2264 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2265 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2267 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2269 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2273 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2280 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2286 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2292 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2295 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2299 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2305 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2311 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2314 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2315 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2316 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2317 I made some changes, though:
2318 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2319 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2320 that is a clear violation of policy.
2321 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2322 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2323 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2324 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2325 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2326 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2327 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2328 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2329 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2331 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2335 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2341 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2344 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2348 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2351 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2352 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2357 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2363 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2370 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2373 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2374 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2375 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2376 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2377 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2378 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2379 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2383 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2389 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2393 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2394 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2398 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2404 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2407 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2411 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2414 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2415 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2419 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2421 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2426 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2430 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2434 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2437 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2438 for the dependancies to be generated.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2442 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2445 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2449 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2452 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2453 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2454 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2459 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2462 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2463 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2467 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2473 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2479 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2482 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2486 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2492 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2495 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2496 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2497 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2498 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2499 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2500 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2501 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2502 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2503 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2504 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2505 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2506 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2510 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2513 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2514 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2516 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2517 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2518 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2519 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2520 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2521 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2523 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2524 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2528 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2531 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2535 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2542 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2545 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2550 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2553 for building debhelper.
2554 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2558 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2565 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2568 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2572 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2575 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2576 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2577 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2578 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2579 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2580 it's always available.
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2584 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2587 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2588 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2589 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2593 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2596 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2597 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2601 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2607 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2610 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2614 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2620 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2623 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2624 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2625 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2629 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2632 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2637 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2640 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2641 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2643 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2644 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2648 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2654 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2660 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2663 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2667 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2670 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2671 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2673 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2677 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2680 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2681 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2682 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2686 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2689 things if CDPATH is set.
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2693 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2699 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2702 seems to make sense for the transition.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2706 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2709 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2714 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2717 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2718 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2722 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2725 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2729 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2732 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2733 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2734 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2735 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2739 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2745 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2748 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2749 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2750 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2751 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2752 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2753 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2754 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2755 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2756 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2757 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2762 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2765 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2766 * README: mention doc/v2
2767 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2768 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2772 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2774 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2775 be using this script RSN.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2779 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2782 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2783 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2784 more than 1 init script.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2788 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2791 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2795 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Changed perl version detection.
2798 * Changed call to find.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2802 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2805 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2807 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2812 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Really include dh_installpam.
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2818 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2821 * Wrote man page for same.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2825 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2828 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2829 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2834 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2841 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2844 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2845 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2846 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2847 x bit was being set!
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2851 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2854 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2855 well. (Closes: 38900)
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2859 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2862 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2863 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2867 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2873 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2880 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2886 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2889 help from Julian Gilbey.
2890 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2891 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2892 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2893 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2894 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2895 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2896 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2901 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2907 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2914 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2920 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2926 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2929 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2933 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2936 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2940 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2943 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2947 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2953 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2956 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2960 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2966 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2972 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2975 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2976 may be deleted. (#35845)
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2980 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Various man page enhancements.
2983 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2988 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2991 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2992 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2996 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2999 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3000 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3001 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3003 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3004 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3009 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3015 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Another very minor typo fix.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3021 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Very minor typo fix.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3027 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3030 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3031 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3035 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3041 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3044 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3045 variables properly (#34850).
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3049 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3055 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3058 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3059 (automatically generated by build process).
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3063 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3065 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3069 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3072 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3073 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3075 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3079 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3082 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3086 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * README: minor typo fix.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3092 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3095 leave it at that. :-)
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3099 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3105 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3111 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3114 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3115 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3116 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3120 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3123 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3127 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3130 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3134 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3137 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3138 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3139 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3140 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3144 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3147 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3148 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3149 Craig Small for spotting this.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3153 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3156 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3157 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3161 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3167 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3170 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3174 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3176 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3177 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3178 working on the last version of debhelper.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3182 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3185 being made. (#23255)
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3189 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3195 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3198 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3202 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3205 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3206 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3207 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3208 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3212 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3215 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3216 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3217 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3218 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3220 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3221 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3223 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3228 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3234 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3240 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3243 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3244 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3245 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3246 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3247 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3248 suidregister actually supports it.
3249 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3250 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3254 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3261 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3264 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3265 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3266 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3267 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3268 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3269 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3270 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3274 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3276 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3277 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3281 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3284 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3285 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3286 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3287 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3291 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3294 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3296 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3297 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3298 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3299 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3300 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3301 effect, either. (#30118)
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3305 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3311 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3314 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3315 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3319 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3325 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3328 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3329 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3330 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3331 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3335 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3338 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3339 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3343 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3349 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3352 packages, painlessly.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3356 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3362 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3368 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3374 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * The perl conversion is complete.
3378 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3380 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3381 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3382 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3387 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3390 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3391 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3392 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3396 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3399 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3401 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3403 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3404 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3408 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3411 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3412 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3416 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3422 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3425 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3426 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3427 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3428 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3429 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3433 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3436 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3437 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3438 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3439 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3443 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3446 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3450 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3453 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3454 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3455 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3456 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3457 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3458 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3459 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3460 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3464 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3470 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3473 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3474 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3475 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3480 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3483 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3487 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3490 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3494 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3497 sections of shared libraries.
3498 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3499 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3500 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3501 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3502 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3503 things you don't want them to.
3504 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3505 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3509 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3512 shared libraries. (#26414)
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3516 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3518 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3519 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3520 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3521 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3525 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3529 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3531 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3532 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3533 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3534 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3535 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3539 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3542 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3546 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3549 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3550 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3555 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3558 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3562 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3565 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3566 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3567 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3568 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3569 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3571 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3572 remove debian/files properly.
3573 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3574 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3575 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3576 * Removed bogus menu file.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3580 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3583 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3587 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3590 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3591 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3592 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3593 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3594 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3595 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3599 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3602 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3603 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3604 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3605 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3609 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3616 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3619 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3620 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3622 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3623 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3624 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3625 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3626 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3627 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3631 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3634 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3635 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3636 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3637 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3638 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3639 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3640 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3641 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3642 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3643 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3644 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3645 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3646 passed any switches.
3647 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3651 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3654 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3655 at all for a long while.
3656 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3657 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3658 large chunks in the process.
3659 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3660 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3661 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3666 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3669 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3671 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3676 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3679 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3680 that don't always have the same files in them.
3681 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3682 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3683 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3687 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3691 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3692 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3693 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3694 updating 27 man pages.
3695 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3696 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3697 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3698 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3699 programs act on. (#25247)
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3703 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3707 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3708 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3709 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3710 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3711 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3712 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3717 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3724 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3731 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3734 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3738 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3744 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3747 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3748 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3749 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3750 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3751 package by accident.
3752 * Is version 1.0 next?
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3756 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3759 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3760 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3764 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3767 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3768 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3769 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3770 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3771 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3773 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3778 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3781 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3782 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3786 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3789 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3793 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3796 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3797 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3802 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3808 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3811 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3812 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3817 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3823 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3826 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3827 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3828 past week. Thanks, guys!
3830 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3831 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3832 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3833 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3834 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3835 would do in the same situation.
3836 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3837 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3839 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3841 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3842 permissions changed.
3843 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3844 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3845 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3846 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3847 files are treated identically.
3848 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3849 * Minor man page fixes.
3850 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3851 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3852 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3856 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3859 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3860 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3861 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3862 use -X multiple times, too.
3863 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3864 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3868 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3871 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3872 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3876 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3879 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3883 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3886 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3887 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3888 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3889 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3890 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3891 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3892 shape if you're starting a new package.
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3896 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3899 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3903 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3906 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3907 because of missing symlinks.
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3911 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3917 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3920 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3921 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3922 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3923 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3924 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3926 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3927 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3931 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3933 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3934 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3935 to be changed after the fact :-)
3936 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3940 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3942 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3943 no version string after the -V.
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3947 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3949 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3950 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3955 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3958 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3962 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3965 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3966 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3967 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3968 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3969 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3970 I always welcome corrections!
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3974 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3980 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3983 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3984 * Documented this new switch.
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3988 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3991 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3992 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3993 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3994 no packages use the old behavior.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3998 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4001 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4002 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4006 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4009 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4013 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4019 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4022 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4026 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4029 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4030 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4031 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4035 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4041 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4044 into the source package by accident.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4048 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4051 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4052 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4053 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4054 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4055 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4056 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4061 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4065 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4066 inspired to implement some of it.
4067 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4071 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4074 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4078 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4081 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4082 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4086 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4089 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4090 have done.) (#17598)
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4094 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4100 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4106 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4109 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4113 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4116 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4117 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4121 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4124 argument processor in perl.
4125 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4126 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4127 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4128 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4132 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4135 type directories. (#16933)
4136 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4137 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4138 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4139 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4140 are supported. (#16935)
4141 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4146 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4149 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4153 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4157 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4158 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4159 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4160 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4161 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4162 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4166 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4169 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4170 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4172 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4173 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4174 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4175 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4176 a given package, or -i or -a.
4177 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4178 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4179 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4180 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4181 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4182 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4183 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4184 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4185 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4187 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4188 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4189 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4193 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4196 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4197 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4202 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4205 does not have a section.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4209 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4212 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4213 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4214 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4218 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * Fixed typo #16215.
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4224 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4227 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4228 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4229 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4230 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4231 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4236 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4239 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4240 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4241 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4246 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4252 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4254 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4258 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4261 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4262 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4263 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4264 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4265 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4266 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4270 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4276 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4279 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4283 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4286 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4287 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4288 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4292 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4295 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4299 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4305 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4308 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4312 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4315 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4319 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4325 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4328 postinst, postrm, etc.
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4332 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4338 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4341 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4342 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4343 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4344 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4345 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4349 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4352 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4353 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4357 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4360 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4364 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4367 installing package files into.
4368 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4373 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4377 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4381 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4387 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4390 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4394 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4397 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4398 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4399 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4400 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4404 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4406 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4407 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4408 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4409 multiple binary packages.
4410 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4411 should rebuild them with this version.
4412 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4416 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4419 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4423 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4426 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4430 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4433 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4434 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4435 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4436 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4437 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4438 debian/README.debian.
4439 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4440 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4441 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4442 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4443 in a few situations.)
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4447 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4453 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4459 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4462 * Fixed several man pages.
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4466 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4468 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4469 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4470 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4474 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4477 is ready for general use.
4478 * Added man pages for all commands.
4479 * Multiple binary package support.
4480 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4481 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4482 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4484 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4485 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4486 auto-installed as parameters.
4487 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4489 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4492 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4493 the package build directory it is to act on.
4494 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4495 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4496 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4500 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4502 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4503 ready to replace debstd.
4505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400