1 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
8 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
10 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
11 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
12 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
13 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
14 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
15 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
19 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
22 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
23 the shell. Closes: #178524
24 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
28 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
31 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
35 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
38 undocumented.7 links anymore.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
42 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
44 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
45 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
46 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
47 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
48 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
53 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
56 files from installation.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
60 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
63 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
64 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
68 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
71 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
75 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
78 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
82 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
88 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
94 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
98 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
99 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
101 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
105 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
108 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
109 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
110 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
111 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
115 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
117 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
118 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
122 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
125 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
126 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
130 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
134 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
139 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
145 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
149 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
150 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
151 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
156 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
159 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
160 practice. Closes: #163303
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
164 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
170 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
177 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
179 * The "reverse hangover" release.
180 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
182 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
183 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
184 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
185 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
186 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
190 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
193 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
198 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
200 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
204 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
211 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
214 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
219 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
225 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
231 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
237 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
244 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
247 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
248 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
249 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
250 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
255 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Typo, Closes: #155323
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
261 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
268 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
271 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
272 * Removed dh_installxaw.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
276 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
279 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
280 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
281 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
282 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
283 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
287 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
290 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
292 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
297 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
299 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
300 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
304 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
307 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
308 right thing. Closes: #150644
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
312 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
319 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
321 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
326 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
329 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
330 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
335 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
341 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
344 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
348 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
351 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
352 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
357 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
360 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
364 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
370 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
373 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
374 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
378 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
384 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Removing perl warning message.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
390 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
393 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
394 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
395 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
396 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
397 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
398 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
399 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
400 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
404 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
410 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
417 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
420 debconf-mergetemplate.
421 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
422 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
426 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
429 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
430 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
431 dh_install, which ...
432 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
433 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
434 mess, as it uses debian/install.
435 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
436 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
437 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
438 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
439 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
440 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
441 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
442 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
443 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
444 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
445 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
447 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
448 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
449 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
450 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
451 course there's -X ..)
452 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
453 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
454 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
456 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
457 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
458 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
459 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
460 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
465 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
471 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
473 * Typo, Closes: #139176
474 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
478 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
484 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
490 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
496 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
502 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
505 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
506 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
507 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
508 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
510 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
511 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
515 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
521 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Typo, Closes: #132454
524 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
528 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
531 upset. Closes: #131322
533 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
535 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
538 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
539 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
540 line, as well as in debian/rules.
541 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
542 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
543 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
544 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
545 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
546 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
547 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
548 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
549 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
550 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
551 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
552 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
554 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
558 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
561 - Better indenting of generated code.
562 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
566 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
570 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
571 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
572 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
573 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
574 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
575 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
576 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
580 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
583 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
587 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
590 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
591 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
592 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
593 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
594 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
595 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
596 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
597 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
598 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
599 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
600 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
601 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
602 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
603 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
604 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
609 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
615 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
618 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
619 * fixed dh_testdir man page
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
623 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Typo, Closes: #122679
626 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
627 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
631 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
637 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
640 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
641 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
642 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
643 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
644 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
649 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
651 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
655 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
658 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
662 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
665 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
670 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Typo, Closes: #114135
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
676 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
679 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
683 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
689 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
693 Also some indentation fixes.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
697 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
700 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
701 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
702 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
703 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
704 Closes: #106514, #85520
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
708 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Typo, Closes: #104405
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
714 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
716 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
720 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
722 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
726 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
732 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
738 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
741 change it in debhelper v4..
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
745 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
751 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
754 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
758 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
761 is not essential. Closes: #100430
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
765 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
771 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
774 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
775 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
776 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
777 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
778 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
779 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
780 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
781 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
782 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
783 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
784 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
785 prefixed with ".debhelper")
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
789 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
792 look just like shared libs, but are not.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
796 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
803 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
806 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
807 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
808 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
809 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
810 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
811 program those options go to. So, for example,
812 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
813 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
814 something complex. Closes: #89311
815 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
819 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
822 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
823 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
824 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
828 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
831 through loop. Closes: #98598
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
835 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Missing semi-colon.
838 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
839 this (dh_* should be called, really).
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
843 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
846 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
847 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
848 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
852 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
855 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
856 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
860 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
863 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
867 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
870 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
871 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
875 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
878 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
879 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
880 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
884 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
887 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
888 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
889 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
893 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
896 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
900 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
906 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Typo, Closes: #92407
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
912 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
918 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
924 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
927 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
931 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
934 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
935 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
936 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
937 followed. Closes: #85483
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
941 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
943 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
944 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
945 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
949 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
952 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
953 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
954 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
955 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
956 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
957 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
958 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
959 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
960 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
961 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
962 Closes: #88464, #77743
963 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
964 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
965 us to deal with that gracefully.
966 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
968 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
969 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
970 a while, Closes: #51225
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
974 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
980 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
983 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
987 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
991 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
996 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
999 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1000 don't make packlist files.
1001 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1002 debhelper coding standards.
1003 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1004 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1008 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1011 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1015 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1018 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1019 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1020 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1021 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1022 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1023 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1024 but is mildly deprecated.
1025 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1026 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1027 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1028 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1029 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1030 switching to statoverrides..
1031 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1032 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1033 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1034 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1035 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1036 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1038 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1039 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1040 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1041 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1042 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1043 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1044 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1045 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1046 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1048 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1049 variable names, pod man pages).
1050 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1051 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1052 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1053 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1054 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1055 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1056 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1060 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1066 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1073 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1076 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1080 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1082 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1083 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1084 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1088 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1090 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1091 they were previously ignored.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1095 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1097 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1098 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1102 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1104 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1105 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1106 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1110 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1112 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1116 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1118 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1119 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1123 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1125 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1126 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1127 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1128 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1129 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1130 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1131 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1132 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1133 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1134 it is an obsolete program.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1138 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1140 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1144 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1148 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1150 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1154 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1156 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1158 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1160 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1164 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1170 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * typo: Closes, #78567
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1176 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1182 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1188 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1191 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1192 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1193 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1194 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1195 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1199 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1202 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1207 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1210 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1211 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1212 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1213 backwards-compatability.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1217 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1220 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1221 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1222 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1223 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1224 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1225 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1227 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1228 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1229 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1231 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1233 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1234 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1235 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1236 should now be raised to severity important..
1237 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1238 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1242 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1245 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1250 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1256 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1262 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1268 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1275 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1278 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1279 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1280 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1281 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1285 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1291 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1294 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1295 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1296 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1297 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1298 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1299 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1304 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1307 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1311 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1317 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1320 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1325 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1328 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1329 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1330 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1331 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1335 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1339 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1342 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1345 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1346 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1349 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1351 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1352 the TODO entry about it.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1356 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1363 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1366 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1367 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1371 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1374 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1375 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1376 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1377 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1381 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1387 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1394 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1397 (this appears to be logal).
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1401 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1404 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1405 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1406 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1407 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1411 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1417 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1420 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1421 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1422 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1423 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1427 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1433 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1436 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1440 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1447 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1450 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1451 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1452 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1457 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1464 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1470 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1473 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1474 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1475 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1476 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1477 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1478 notice until v2 is complete.
1479 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1480 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1481 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1482 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1483 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1484 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1486 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1487 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1488 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1489 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1493 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1499 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1506 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1509 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1513 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1520 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1523 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1524 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1525 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1526 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1531 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1534 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1535 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1536 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1541 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1544 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1545 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1549 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1552 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1556 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1559 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1563 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1570 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1573 depend on the build and install targets.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1577 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1580 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1584 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1591 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1597 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1603 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1606 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1607 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1608 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1609 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1610 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1611 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1613 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1614 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1615 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1616 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1617 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1618 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1619 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1623 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1629 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1635 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1638 right place. Closes: #55065
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1642 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1649 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1652 * Copyright date updates.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1656 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1659 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1664 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1670 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1677 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1683 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1689 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1695 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1698 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1699 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1700 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1701 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1702 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1703 bits until all files have been registered.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1707 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installmanpages:
1710 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1711 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1712 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1713 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1714 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1715 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1716 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1717 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1718 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1719 otherwise change the result at all.
1721 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1722 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1723 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1724 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1725 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1730 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1736 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1739 act on files that don't exist.
1740 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1741 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1742 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1744 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1745 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1746 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1747 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1751 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1757 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1763 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1766 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1770 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1773 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1775 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1776 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1777 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1781 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1784 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1785 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1786 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1787 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1788 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1789 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1790 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1792 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1794 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1798 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1805 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1811 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1817 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1820 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1824 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1830 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1836 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1839 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1840 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1841 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1842 I made some changes, though:
1843 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1844 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1845 that is a clear violation of policy.
1846 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1847 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1848 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1849 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1850 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1851 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1852 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1853 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1854 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1856 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1860 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1866 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1869 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1873 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1876 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1877 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1882 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1888 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1895 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1898 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1899 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1900 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1901 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1902 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1903 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1904 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1908 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1914 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1918 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1919 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1923 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1929 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1932 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1939 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1940 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1944 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1946 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1951 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1955 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1959 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1962 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1963 for the dependancies to be generated.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1967 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1970 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1974 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1977 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1978 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1979 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1984 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1987 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1988 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1992 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1998 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2004 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2007 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2011 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2017 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2020 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2021 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2022 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2023 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2024 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2025 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2026 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2027 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2028 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2029 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2030 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2031 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2035 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2038 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2039 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2041 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2042 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2043 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2044 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2045 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2046 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2048 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2049 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2053 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2056 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2060 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2067 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2070 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2075 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2078 for building debhelper.
2079 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2083 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2090 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2093 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2097 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2100 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2101 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2102 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2103 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2104 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2105 it's always available.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2109 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2112 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2113 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2114 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2118 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2121 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2122 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2126 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2132 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2135 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2139 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2145 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2148 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2149 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2150 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2154 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2157 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2162 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2165 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2166 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2168 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2169 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2173 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2179 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2185 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2188 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2192 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2195 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2196 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2198 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2202 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2205 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2206 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2207 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2211 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2214 things if CDPATH is set.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2218 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2224 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2227 seems to make sense for the transition.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2231 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2234 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2239 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2242 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2243 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2247 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2250 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2254 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2257 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2258 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2259 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2260 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2264 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2270 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2273 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2274 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2275 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2276 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2277 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2278 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2279 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2280 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2281 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2282 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2287 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2290 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2291 * README: mention doc/v2
2292 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2293 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2297 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2299 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2300 be using this script RSN.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2304 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2307 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2308 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2309 more than 1 init script.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2313 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2316 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2320 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Changed perl version detection.
2323 * Changed call to find.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2327 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2330 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2332 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2337 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Really include dh_installpam.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2343 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2346 * Wrote man page for same.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2350 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2353 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2354 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2359 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2366 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2369 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2370 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2371 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2372 x bit was being set!
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2376 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2379 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2380 well. (Closes: 38900)
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2384 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2387 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2388 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2392 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2398 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2405 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2411 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2414 help from Julian Gilbey.
2415 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2416 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2417 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2418 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2419 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2420 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2421 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2426 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2432 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2439 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2445 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2451 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2454 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2458 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2461 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2465 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2468 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2472 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2478 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2481 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2485 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2491 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2497 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2500 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2501 may be deleted. (#35845)
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2505 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Various man page enhancements.
2508 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2513 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2516 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2517 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2521 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2524 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2525 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2526 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2528 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2529 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2534 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2540 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Another very minor typo fix.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2546 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Very minor typo fix.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2552 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2555 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2556 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2560 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2566 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2569 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2570 variables properly (#34850).
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2574 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2580 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2583 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2584 (automatically generated by build process).
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2588 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2590 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2594 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2597 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2598 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2600 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2604 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2607 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2611 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * README: minor typo fix.
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2617 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2620 leave it at that. :-)
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2624 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2630 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2636 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2639 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2640 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2641 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2645 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2648 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2652 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2655 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2659 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2662 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2663 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2664 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2665 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2669 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2672 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2673 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2674 Craig Small for spotting this.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2678 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2681 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2682 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2686 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2692 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2695 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2699 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2701 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2702 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2703 working on the last version of debhelper.
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2707 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2710 being made. (#23255)
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2714 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2720 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2723 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2727 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2730 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2731 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2732 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2733 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2737 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2740 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2741 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2742 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2743 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2745 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2746 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2748 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2753 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2759 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2765 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2768 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2769 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2770 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2771 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2772 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2773 suidregister actually supports it.
2774 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2775 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2779 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2786 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2789 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2790 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2791 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2792 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2793 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2794 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2795 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2799 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2801 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2802 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2806 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2809 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2810 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2811 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2812 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2816 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2819 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2821 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2822 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2823 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2824 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2825 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2826 effect, either. (#30118)
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2830 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2836 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2839 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2840 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2844 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2850 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2853 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2854 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2855 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2856 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2860 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2863 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2864 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2868 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2874 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2877 packages, painlessly.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2881 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2887 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2893 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2899 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * The perl conversion is complete.
2903 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2905 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2906 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2907 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2912 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2915 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2916 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2917 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2921 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2924 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2926 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2928 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2929 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2933 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2936 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2937 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2941 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2947 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2950 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2951 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2952 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2953 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2954 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2958 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2961 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2962 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2963 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2964 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2968 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2971 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2975 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2978 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2979 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2980 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2981 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2982 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2983 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2984 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2985 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2989 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2995 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2998 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2999 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3000 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3005 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3008 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3012 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3015 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3019 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3022 sections of shared libraries.
3023 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3024 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3025 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3026 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3027 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3028 things you don't want them to.
3029 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3030 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3034 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3037 shared libraries. (#26414)
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3041 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3043 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3044 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3045 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3046 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3050 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3054 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3056 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3057 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3058 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3059 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3060 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3064 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3067 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3071 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3074 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3075 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3080 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3083 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3087 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3090 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3091 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3092 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3093 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3094 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3096 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3097 remove debian/files properly.
3098 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3099 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3100 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3101 * Removed bogus menu file.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3105 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3108 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3112 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3115 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3116 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3117 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3118 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3119 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3120 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3124 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3127 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3128 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3129 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3130 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3134 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3141 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3144 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3145 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3147 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3148 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3149 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3150 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3151 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3152 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3156 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3159 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3160 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3161 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3162 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3163 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3164 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3165 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3166 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3167 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3168 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3169 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3170 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3171 passed any switches.
3172 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3176 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3179 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3180 at all for a long while.
3181 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3182 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3183 large chunks in the process.
3184 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3185 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3186 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3191 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3194 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3196 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3201 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3204 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3205 that don't always have the same files in them.
3206 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3207 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3208 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3212 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3216 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3217 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3218 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3219 updating 27 man pages.
3220 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3221 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3222 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3223 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3224 programs act on. (#25247)
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3228 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3232 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3233 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3234 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3235 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3236 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3237 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3242 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3249 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3256 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3259 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3263 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3269 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3272 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3273 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3274 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3275 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3276 package by accident.
3277 * Is version 1.0 next?
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3281 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3284 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3285 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3289 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3292 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3293 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3294 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3295 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3296 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3298 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3303 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3306 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3307 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3311 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3314 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3318 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3321 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3322 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3327 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3333 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3336 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3337 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3342 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3348 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3351 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3352 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3353 past week. Thanks, guys!
3355 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3356 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3357 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3358 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3359 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3360 would do in the same situation.
3361 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3362 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3364 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3366 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3367 permissions changed.
3368 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3369 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3370 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3371 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3372 files are treated identically.
3373 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3374 * Minor man page fixes.
3375 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3376 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3377 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3381 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3384 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3385 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3386 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3387 use -X multiple times, too.
3388 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3389 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3393 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3396 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3397 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3401 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3404 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3408 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3411 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3412 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3413 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3414 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3415 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3416 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3417 shape if you're starting a new package.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3421 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3424 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3428 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3431 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3432 because of missing symlinks.
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3436 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3442 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3445 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3446 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3447 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3448 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3449 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3451 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3452 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3456 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3458 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3459 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3460 to be changed after the fact :-)
3461 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3465 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3468 no version string after the -V.
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3472 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3474 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3475 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3480 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3483 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3487 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3490 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3491 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3492 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3493 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3494 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3495 I always welcome corrections!
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3499 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3505 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3508 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3509 * Documented this new switch.
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3513 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3516 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3517 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3518 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3519 no packages use the old behavior.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3523 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3526 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3527 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3531 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3534 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3538 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3544 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3547 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3551 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3554 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3555 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3556 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3560 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3566 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3569 into the source package by accident.
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3573 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3576 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3577 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3578 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3579 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3580 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3581 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3586 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3590 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3591 inspired to implement some of it.
3592 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3596 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3599 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3603 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3606 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3607 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3611 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3614 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3615 have done.) (#17598)
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3619 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3625 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3631 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3634 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3638 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3641 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3642 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3646 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3649 argument processor in perl.
3650 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3651 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3652 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3653 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3657 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3660 type directories. (#16933)
3661 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3662 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3663 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3664 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3665 are supported. (#16935)
3666 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3671 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3674 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3678 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3682 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3683 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3684 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3685 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3686 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3687 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3691 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3694 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3695 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3697 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3698 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3699 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3700 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3701 a given package, or -i or -a.
3702 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3703 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3704 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3705 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3706 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3707 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3708 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3709 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3710 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3712 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3713 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3714 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3718 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3721 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3722 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3727 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3730 does not have a section.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3734 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3737 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3738 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3739 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3743 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Fixed typo #16215.
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3749 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3752 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3753 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3754 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3755 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3756 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3761 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3764 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3765 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3766 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3771 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3777 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3783 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3786 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3787 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3788 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3789 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3790 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3791 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3795 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3801 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3804 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3808 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3811 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3812 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3813 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3817 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3820 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3824 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3830 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3833 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3837 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3840 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3844 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3850 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3853 postinst, postrm, etc.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3857 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3863 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3866 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3867 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3868 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3869 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3870 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3874 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3877 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3878 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3882 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3885 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3889 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3892 installing package files into.
3893 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3898 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3902 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3906 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3912 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3915 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3919 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3922 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3923 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3924 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3925 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3929 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3931 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3932 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3933 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3934 multiple binary packages.
3935 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3936 should rebuild them with this version.
3937 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3941 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3944 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3948 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3951 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3955 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3958 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3959 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3960 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3961 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3962 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3963 debian/README.debian.
3964 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3965 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3966 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3967 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3968 in a few situations.)
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3972 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3978 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3984 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3987 * Fixed several man pages.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3991 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3994 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3995 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3999 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4002 is ready for general use.
4003 * Added man pages for all commands.
4004 * Multiple binary package support.
4005 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4006 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4007 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4009 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4010 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4011 auto-installed as parameters.
4012 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4014 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4017 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4018 the package build directory it is to act on.
4019 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4020 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4021 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4025 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4027 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4028 ready to replace debstd.
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400