1 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
4 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
5 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
6 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
10 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
13 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
14 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
18 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
24 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
26 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
31 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
33 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
34 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
39 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
42 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
46 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
49 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
51 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
52 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
56 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
59 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
64 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
67 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
71 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
77 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
79 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
83 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
86 it break hard links (see #188663).
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
90 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
93 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
97 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
103 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
107 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
108 debconf-mergetemplates
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
112 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
115 pod2man. Closes: #184013
117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
119 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
121 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
122 * Typo, Closes: #183267
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
126 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
129 * Update debhelper(1).
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
133 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
135 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
136 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
137 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
138 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
139 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
140 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
144 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
147 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
148 the shell. Closes: #178524
149 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
153 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
156 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
160 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
163 undocumented.7 links anymore.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
167 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
169 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
170 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
171 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
172 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
173 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
178 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
181 files from installation.
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
185 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
188 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
189 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
193 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
195 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
196 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
200 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
203 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
207 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
213 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
219 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
223 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
224 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
226 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
230 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
233 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
234 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
235 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
236 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
240 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
242 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
243 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
247 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
250 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
251 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
255 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
259 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
264 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
270 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
274 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
275 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
276 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
281 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
284 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
285 practice. Closes: #163303
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
289 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
295 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
302 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
304 * The "reverse hangover" release.
305 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
307 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
308 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
309 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
310 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
311 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
315 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
318 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
323 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
329 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
336 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
339 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
344 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
346 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
350 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
356 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
362 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
369 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
372 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
373 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
374 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
375 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
380 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Typo, Closes: #155323
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
386 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
393 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
396 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
397 * Removed dh_installxaw.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
401 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
404 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
405 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
406 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
407 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
408 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
412 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
415 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
417 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
422 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
424 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
425 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
429 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
432 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
433 right thing. Closes: #150644
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
437 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
440 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
444 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
446 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
451 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
454 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
455 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
460 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
466 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
469 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
473 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
476 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
477 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
482 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
485 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
489 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
495 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
498 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
499 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
503 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
509 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Removing perl warning message.
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
515 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
518 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
519 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
520 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
521 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
522 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
523 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
524 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
525 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
529 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
535 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
542 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
545 debconf-mergetemplate.
546 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
547 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
551 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
554 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
555 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
556 dh_install, which ...
557 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
558 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
559 mess, as it uses debian/install.
560 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
561 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
562 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
563 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
564 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
565 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
566 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
567 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
568 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
569 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
570 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
572 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
573 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
574 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
575 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
576 course there's -X ..)
577 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
578 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
579 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
581 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
582 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
583 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
584 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
585 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
590 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
596 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Typo, Closes: #139176
599 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
603 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
609 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
615 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
621 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
627 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
630 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
631 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
632 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
633 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
635 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
636 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
640 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
646 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Typo, Closes: #132454
649 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
653 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
656 upset. Closes: #131322
658 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
660 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
663 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
664 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
665 line, as well as in debian/rules.
666 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
667 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
668 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
669 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
670 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
671 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
672 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
673 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
674 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
675 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
676 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
677 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
679 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
683 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
686 - Better indenting of generated code.
687 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
691 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
695 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
696 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
697 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
698 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
699 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
700 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
701 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
705 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
708 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
712 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
715 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
716 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
717 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
718 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
719 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
720 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
721 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
722 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
723 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
724 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
725 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
726 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
727 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
728 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
729 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
734 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
740 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
743 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
744 * fixed dh_testdir man page
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
748 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Typo, Closes: #122679
751 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
752 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
756 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
762 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
765 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
766 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
767 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
768 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
769 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
774 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
776 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
780 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
782 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
783 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
787 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
790 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
795 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Typo, Closes: #114135
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
801 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
804 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
808 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
814 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
818 Also some indentation fixes.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
822 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
825 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
826 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
827 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
828 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
829 Closes: #106514, #85520
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
833 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Typo, Closes: #104405
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
839 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
845 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
847 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
851 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
857 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
863 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
866 change it in debhelper v4..
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
870 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
876 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
879 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
883 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
886 is not essential. Closes: #100430
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
890 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
896 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
899 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
900 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
901 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
902 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
903 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
904 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
905 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
906 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
907 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
908 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
909 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
910 prefixed with ".debhelper")
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
914 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
916 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
917 look just like shared libs, but are not.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
921 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
928 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
931 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
932 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
933 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
934 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
935 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
936 program those options go to. So, for example,
937 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
938 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
939 something complex. Closes: #89311
940 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
944 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
947 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
948 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
949 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
953 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
956 through loop. Closes: #98598
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
960 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Missing semi-colon.
963 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
964 this (dh_* should be called, really).
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
968 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
971 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
972 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
973 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
977 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
980 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
981 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
985 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
988 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
992 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
995 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
996 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1000 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1003 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1004 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1005 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1009 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1012 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1013 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1014 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1018 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1021 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1025 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1031 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1037 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1043 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1049 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1052 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1056 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1059 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1060 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1061 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1062 followed. Closes: #85483
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1066 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1068 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1069 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1070 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1074 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1077 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1078 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1079 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1080 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1081 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1082 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1083 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1084 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1085 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1086 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1087 Closes: #88464, #77743
1088 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1089 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1090 us to deal with that gracefully.
1091 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1093 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1094 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1095 a while, Closes: #51225
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1099 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1105 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1108 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1112 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1116 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1121 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1124 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1125 don't make packlist files.
1126 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1127 debhelper coding standards.
1128 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1129 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1133 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1136 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1140 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1143 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1144 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1145 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1146 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1147 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1148 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1149 but is mildly deprecated.
1150 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1151 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1152 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1153 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1154 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1155 switching to statoverrides..
1156 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1157 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1158 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1159 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1160 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1161 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1163 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1164 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1165 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1166 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1167 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1168 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1169 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1170 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1171 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1173 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1174 variable names, pod man pages).
1175 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1176 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1177 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1178 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1179 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1180 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1181 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1185 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1191 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1198 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1201 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1205 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1207 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1208 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1209 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1213 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1215 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1216 they were previously ignored.
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1220 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1222 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1223 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1227 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1229 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1230 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1231 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1235 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1237 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1241 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1243 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1244 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1248 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1250 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1251 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1252 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1253 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1254 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1255 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1256 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1257 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1258 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1259 it is an obsolete program.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1263 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1265 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1269 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1273 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1275 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1279 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1281 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1283 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1285 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1289 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1295 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * typo: Closes, #78567
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1301 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1307 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1313 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1316 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1317 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1318 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1319 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1320 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1324 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1327 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1332 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1335 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1336 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1337 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1338 backwards-compatability.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1342 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1345 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1346 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1347 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1348 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1349 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1350 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1352 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1353 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1354 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1356 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1358 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1359 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1360 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1361 should now be raised to severity important..
1362 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1363 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1367 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1370 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1375 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1381 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1387 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1393 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1400 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1403 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1404 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1405 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1406 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1410 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1416 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1419 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1420 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1421 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1422 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1423 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1424 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1429 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1432 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1436 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1442 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1445 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1450 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1453 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1454 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1455 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1456 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1460 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1464 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1467 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1470 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1471 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1474 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1476 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1477 the TODO entry about it.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1481 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1488 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1491 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1492 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1496 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1499 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1500 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1501 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1502 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1506 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1512 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1519 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1522 (this appears to be logal).
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1526 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1529 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1530 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1531 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1532 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1536 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1542 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1545 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1546 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1547 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1548 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1552 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1558 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1561 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1565 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1572 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1575 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1576 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1577 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1582 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1589 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1595 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1598 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1599 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1600 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1601 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1602 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1603 notice until v2 is complete.
1604 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1605 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1606 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1607 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1608 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1609 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1611 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1612 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1613 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1614 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1618 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1624 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1631 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1634 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1638 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1645 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1648 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1649 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1650 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1651 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1656 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1659 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1660 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1661 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1666 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1669 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1670 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1674 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1677 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1681 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1684 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1688 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1695 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1698 depend on the build and install targets.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1702 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1705 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1709 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1716 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1722 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1728 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1731 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1732 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1733 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1734 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1735 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1736 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1738 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1739 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1740 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1741 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1742 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1743 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1744 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1748 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1754 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1760 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1763 right place. Closes: #55065
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1767 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1774 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1777 * Copyright date updates.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1781 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1784 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1789 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1795 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1802 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1808 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1814 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1820 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1823 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1824 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1825 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1826 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1827 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1828 bits until all files have been registered.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1832 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_installmanpages:
1835 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1836 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1837 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1838 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1839 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1840 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1841 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1842 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1843 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1844 otherwise change the result at all.
1846 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1847 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1848 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1849 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1850 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1855 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1861 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1864 act on files that don't exist.
1865 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1866 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1867 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1869 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1870 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1871 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1872 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1876 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1882 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1888 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1891 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1895 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1898 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1900 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1901 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1902 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1906 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1909 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1910 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1911 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1912 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1913 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1914 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1915 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1917 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1919 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1923 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1930 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1942 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1945 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1949 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1955 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1961 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1964 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1965 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1966 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1967 I made some changes, though:
1968 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1969 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1970 that is a clear violation of policy.
1971 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1972 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1973 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1974 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1975 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1976 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1977 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1978 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1979 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1981 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1985 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1991 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1994 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1998 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2001 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2002 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2007 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2013 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2020 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2023 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2024 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2025 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2026 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2027 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2028 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2029 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2033 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2039 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2043 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2044 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2048 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2054 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2057 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2061 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2064 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2065 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2069 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2071 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2076 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2080 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2084 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2087 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2088 for the dependancies to be generated.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2092 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2095 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2099 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2102 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2103 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2104 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2109 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2112 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2113 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2117 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2123 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2129 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2132 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2136 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2142 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2145 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2146 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2147 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2148 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2149 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2150 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2151 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2152 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2153 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2154 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2155 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2156 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2160 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2163 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2164 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2166 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2167 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2168 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2169 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2170 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2171 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2173 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2174 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2178 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2181 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2185 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2192 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2195 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2200 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2203 for building debhelper.
2204 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2208 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2215 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2218 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2222 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2225 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2226 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2227 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2228 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2229 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2230 it's always available.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2234 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2237 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2238 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2239 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2243 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2246 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2247 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2251 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2257 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2260 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2264 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2270 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2273 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2274 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2275 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2279 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2282 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2287 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2290 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2291 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2293 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2294 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2298 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2304 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2310 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2313 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2317 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2320 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2321 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2323 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2327 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2330 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2331 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2332 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2336 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2339 things if CDPATH is set.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2343 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2349 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2352 seems to make sense for the transition.
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2356 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2359 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2364 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2367 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2368 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2372 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2375 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2379 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2382 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2383 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2384 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2385 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2389 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2395 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2398 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2399 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2400 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2401 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2402 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2403 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2404 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2405 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2406 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2407 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2412 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2415 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2416 * README: mention doc/v2
2417 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2418 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2422 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2424 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2425 be using this script RSN.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2429 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2432 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2433 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2434 more than 1 init script.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2438 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2441 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2445 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Changed perl version detection.
2448 * Changed call to find.
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2452 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2455 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2457 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2462 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Really include dh_installpam.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2468 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2471 * Wrote man page for same.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2475 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2478 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2479 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2484 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2491 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2494 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2495 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2496 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2497 x bit was being set!
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2501 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2504 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2505 well. (Closes: 38900)
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2509 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2512 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2513 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2517 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2523 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2530 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2536 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2539 help from Julian Gilbey.
2540 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2541 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2542 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2543 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2544 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2545 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2546 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2551 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2557 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2564 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2570 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2576 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2579 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2583 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2586 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2590 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2593 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2597 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2603 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2606 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2610 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2616 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2622 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2625 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2626 may be deleted. (#35845)
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2630 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Various man page enhancements.
2633 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2638 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2641 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2642 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2646 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2649 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2650 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2651 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2653 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2654 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2659 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2665 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Another very minor typo fix.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2671 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Very minor typo fix.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2677 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2680 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2681 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2685 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2691 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2694 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2695 variables properly (#34850).
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2699 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2705 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2708 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2709 (automatically generated by build process).
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2713 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2715 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2719 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2722 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2723 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2725 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2729 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2732 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2736 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * README: minor typo fix.
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2742 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2745 leave it at that. :-)
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2749 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2755 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2761 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2764 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2765 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2766 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2770 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2773 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2777 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2780 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2784 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2787 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2788 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2789 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2790 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2794 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2797 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2798 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2799 Craig Small for spotting this.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2803 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2806 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2807 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2811 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2817 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2820 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2824 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2826 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2827 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2828 working on the last version of debhelper.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2832 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2835 being made. (#23255)
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2839 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2845 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2848 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2852 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2855 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2856 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2857 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2858 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2862 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2865 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2866 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2867 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2868 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2870 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2871 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2873 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2878 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2884 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2890 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2893 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2894 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2895 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2896 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2897 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2898 suidregister actually supports it.
2899 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2900 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2904 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2911 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2914 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2915 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2916 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2917 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2918 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2919 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2920 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2924 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2926 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2927 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2931 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2934 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2935 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2936 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2937 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2941 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2944 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2946 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2947 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2948 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2949 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2950 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2951 effect, either. (#30118)
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2955 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2961 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2964 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2965 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2969 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2975 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2978 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2979 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2980 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2981 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2985 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2988 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2989 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2993 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2999 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3002 packages, painlessly.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3006 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3012 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3018 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3024 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * The perl conversion is complete.
3028 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3030 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3031 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3032 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3037 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3040 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3041 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3042 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3046 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3049 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3051 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3053 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3054 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3058 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3061 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3062 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3066 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3072 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3075 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3076 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3077 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3078 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3079 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3083 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3086 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3087 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3088 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3089 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3093 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3096 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3100 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3103 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3104 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3105 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3106 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3107 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3108 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3109 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3110 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3114 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3120 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3123 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3124 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3125 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3130 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3133 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3137 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3140 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3144 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3147 sections of shared libraries.
3148 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3149 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3150 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3151 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3152 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3153 things you don't want them to.
3154 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3155 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3159 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3162 shared libraries. (#26414)
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3166 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3168 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3169 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3170 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3171 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3175 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3179 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3181 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3182 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3183 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3184 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3185 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3189 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3192 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3196 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3199 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3200 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3205 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3208 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3212 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3215 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3216 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3217 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3218 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3219 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3221 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3222 remove debian/files properly.
3223 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3224 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3225 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3226 * Removed bogus menu file.
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3230 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3233 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3237 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3240 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3241 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3242 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3243 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3244 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3245 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3249 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3252 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3253 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3254 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3255 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3259 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3266 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3269 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3270 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3272 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3273 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3274 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3275 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3276 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3277 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3281 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3284 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3285 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3286 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3287 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3288 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3289 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3290 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3291 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3292 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3293 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3294 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3295 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3296 passed any switches.
3297 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3301 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3304 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3305 at all for a long while.
3306 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3307 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3308 large chunks in the process.
3309 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3310 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3311 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3316 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3319 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3321 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3326 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3329 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3330 that don't always have the same files in them.
3331 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3332 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3333 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3337 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3341 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3342 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3343 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3344 updating 27 man pages.
3345 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3346 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3347 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3348 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3349 programs act on. (#25247)
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3353 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3357 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3358 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3359 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3360 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3361 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3362 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3367 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3374 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3381 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3384 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3388 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3394 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3397 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3398 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3399 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3400 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3401 package by accident.
3402 * Is version 1.0 next?
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3406 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3409 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3410 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3414 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3417 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3418 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3419 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3420 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3421 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3423 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3428 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3431 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3432 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3436 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3439 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3443 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3446 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3447 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3452 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3458 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3461 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3462 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3467 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3473 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3476 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3477 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3478 past week. Thanks, guys!
3480 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3481 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3482 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3483 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3484 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3485 would do in the same situation.
3486 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3487 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3489 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3491 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3492 permissions changed.
3493 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3494 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3495 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3496 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3497 files are treated identically.
3498 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3499 * Minor man page fixes.
3500 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3501 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3502 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3506 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3509 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3510 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3511 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3512 use -X multiple times, too.
3513 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3514 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3518 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3521 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3522 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3526 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3529 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3533 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3536 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3537 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3538 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3539 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3540 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3541 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3542 shape if you're starting a new package.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3546 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3549 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3553 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3556 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3557 because of missing symlinks.
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3561 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3567 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3570 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3571 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3572 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3573 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3574 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3576 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3577 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3581 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3583 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3584 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3585 to be changed after the fact :-)
3586 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3590 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3592 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3593 no version string after the -V.
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3597 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3599 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3600 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3605 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3608 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3612 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3615 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3616 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3617 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3618 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3619 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3620 I always welcome corrections!
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3624 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3630 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3633 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3634 * Documented this new switch.
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3638 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3641 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3642 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3643 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3644 no packages use the old behavior.
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3648 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3651 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3652 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3656 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3659 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3663 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3669 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3672 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3676 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3679 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3680 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3681 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3685 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3691 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3694 into the source package by accident.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3698 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3701 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3702 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3703 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3704 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3705 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3706 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3711 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3715 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3716 inspired to implement some of it.
3717 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3721 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3724 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3728 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3731 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3732 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3736 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3739 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3740 have done.) (#17598)
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3744 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3750 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3756 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3759 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3763 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3766 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3767 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3771 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3774 argument processor in perl.
3775 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3776 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3777 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3778 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3782 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3785 type directories. (#16933)
3786 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3787 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3788 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3789 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3790 are supported. (#16935)
3791 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3796 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3799 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3803 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3807 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3808 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3809 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3810 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3811 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3812 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3816 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3819 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3820 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3822 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3823 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3824 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3825 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3826 a given package, or -i or -a.
3827 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3828 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3829 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3830 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3831 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3832 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3833 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3834 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3835 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3837 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3838 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3839 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3843 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3846 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3847 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3852 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3855 does not have a section.
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3859 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3862 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3863 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3864 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3868 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Fixed typo #16215.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3874 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3877 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3878 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3879 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3880 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3881 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3886 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3889 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3890 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3891 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3896 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3902 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3908 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3911 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3912 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3913 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3914 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3915 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3916 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3920 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3926 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3929 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3933 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3936 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3937 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3938 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3942 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3945 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3949 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3955 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3958 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3962 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3965 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3969 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3975 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3978 postinst, postrm, etc.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3982 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3988 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3991 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3992 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3993 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3994 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3995 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3999 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4002 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4003 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4007 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4010 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4014 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4017 installing package files into.
4018 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4023 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4027 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4031 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4037 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4040 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4044 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4047 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4048 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4049 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4050 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4054 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4056 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4057 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4058 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4059 multiple binary packages.
4060 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4061 should rebuild them with this version.
4062 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4066 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4069 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4073 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4076 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4080 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4083 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4084 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4085 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4086 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4087 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4088 debian/README.debian.
4089 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4090 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4091 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4092 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4093 in a few situations.)
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4097 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4103 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4109 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4112 * Fixed several man pages.
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4116 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4119 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4120 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4124 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4127 is ready for general use.
4128 * Added man pages for all commands.
4129 * Multiple binary package support.
4130 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4131 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4132 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4134 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4135 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4136 auto-installed as parameters.
4137 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4139 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4142 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4143 the package build directory it is to act on.
4144 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4145 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4146 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4150 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4152 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4153 ready to replace debstd.
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400