1 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
4 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
5 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
9 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
15 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
21 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
27 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
30 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
31 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
32 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
36 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
39 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
40 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
44 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
50 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
57 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
60 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
65 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
68 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
72 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
75 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
77 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
78 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
82 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
85 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
90 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
93 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
97 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
103 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
105 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
109 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
111 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
112 it break hard links (see #188663).
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
116 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
119 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
123 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
129 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
133 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
134 debconf-mergetemplates
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
138 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
141 pod2man. Closes: #184013
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
145 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
148 * Typo, Closes: #183267
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
152 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
155 * Update debhelper(1).
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
159 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
161 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
162 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
163 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
164 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
165 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
166 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
170 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
173 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
174 the shell. Closes: #178524
175 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
179 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
182 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
186 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
189 undocumented.7 links anymore.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
193 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
195 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
196 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
197 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
198 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
199 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
204 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
207 files from installation.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
211 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
214 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
215 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
219 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
222 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
226 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
229 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
233 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
239 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
245 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
249 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
250 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
252 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
256 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
259 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
260 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
261 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
262 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
266 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
268 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
269 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
273 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
276 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
277 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
281 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
285 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
290 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
296 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
300 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
301 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
302 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
307 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
310 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
311 practice. Closes: #163303
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
315 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
321 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
323 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
328 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
330 * The "reverse hangover" release.
331 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
333 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
334 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
335 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
336 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
337 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
341 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
344 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
349 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
355 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
362 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
365 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
370 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
376 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
382 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
388 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
395 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
398 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
399 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
400 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
401 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
406 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Typo, Closes: #155323
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
412 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
419 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
422 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
423 * Removed dh_installxaw.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
427 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
430 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
431 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
432 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
433 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
434 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
438 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
440 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
441 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
443 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
448 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
450 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
451 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
455 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
458 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
459 right thing. Closes: #150644
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
463 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
470 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
472 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
477 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
480 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
481 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
486 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
492 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
495 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
499 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
502 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
503 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
508 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
511 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
515 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
521 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
524 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
525 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
529 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
535 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Removing perl warning message.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
541 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
544 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
545 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
546 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
547 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
548 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
549 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
550 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
551 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
555 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
561 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
568 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
571 debconf-mergetemplate.
572 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
573 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
577 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
580 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
581 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
582 dh_install, which ...
583 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
584 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
585 mess, as it uses debian/install.
586 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
587 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
588 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
589 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
590 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
591 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
592 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
593 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
594 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
595 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
596 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
598 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
599 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
600 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
601 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
602 course there's -X ..)
603 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
604 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
605 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
607 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
608 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
609 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
610 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
611 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
616 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
622 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Typo, Closes: #139176
625 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
629 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
635 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
641 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
647 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
653 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
655 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
656 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
657 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
658 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
659 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
661 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
662 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
666 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
672 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Typo, Closes: #132454
675 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
679 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
682 upset. Closes: #131322
684 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
686 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
689 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
690 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
691 line, as well as in debian/rules.
692 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
693 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
694 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
695 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
696 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
697 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
698 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
699 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
700 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
701 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
702 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
703 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
705 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
709 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
712 - Better indenting of generated code.
713 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
717 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
721 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
722 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
723 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
724 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
725 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
726 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
727 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
731 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
734 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
738 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
741 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
742 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
743 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
744 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
745 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
746 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
747 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
748 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
749 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
750 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
751 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
752 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
753 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
754 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
755 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
760 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
766 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
768 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
769 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
770 * fixed dh_testdir man page
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
774 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
776 * Typo, Closes: #122679
777 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
778 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
782 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
788 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
791 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
792 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
793 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
794 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
795 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
800 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
802 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
806 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
809 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
813 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
816 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
821 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Typo, Closes: #114135
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
827 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
830 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
834 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
840 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
844 Also some indentation fixes.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
848 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
851 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
852 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
853 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
854 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
855 Closes: #106514, #85520
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
859 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Typo, Closes: #104405
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
865 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
871 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
873 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
877 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
883 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
889 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
891 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
892 change it in debhelper v4..
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
896 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
902 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
905 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
909 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
912 is not essential. Closes: #100430
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
916 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
922 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
925 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
926 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
927 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
928 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
929 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
930 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
931 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
932 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
933 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
934 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
935 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
936 prefixed with ".debhelper")
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
940 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
943 look just like shared libs, but are not.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
947 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
954 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
957 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
958 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
959 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
960 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
961 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
962 program those options go to. So, for example,
963 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
964 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
965 something complex. Closes: #89311
966 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
970 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
973 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
974 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
975 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
979 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
982 through loop. Closes: #98598
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
986 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Missing semi-colon.
989 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
990 this (dh_* should be called, really).
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
994 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
997 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
998 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
999 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1003 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1006 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1007 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1011 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1014 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1018 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1021 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1022 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1026 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1029 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1030 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1031 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1035 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1038 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1039 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1040 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1044 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1047 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1051 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1057 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1063 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1069 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1075 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1078 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1082 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1085 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1086 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1087 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1088 followed. Closes: #85483
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1092 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1094 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1095 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1096 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1100 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1103 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1104 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1105 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1106 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1107 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1108 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1109 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1110 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1111 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1112 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1113 Closes: #88464, #77743
1114 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1115 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1116 us to deal with that gracefully.
1117 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1119 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1120 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1121 a while, Closes: #51225
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1125 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1131 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1134 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1138 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1142 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1147 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1150 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1151 don't make packlist files.
1152 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1153 debhelper coding standards.
1154 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1155 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1159 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1162 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1166 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1169 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1170 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1171 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1172 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1173 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1174 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1175 but is mildly deprecated.
1176 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1177 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1178 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1179 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1180 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1181 switching to statoverrides..
1182 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1183 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1184 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1185 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1186 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1187 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1189 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1190 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1191 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1192 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1193 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1194 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1195 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1196 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1197 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1199 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1200 variable names, pod man pages).
1201 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1202 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1203 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1204 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1205 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1206 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1207 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1211 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1217 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1224 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1227 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1231 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1233 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1234 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1235 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1239 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1241 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1242 they were previously ignored.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1246 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1248 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1249 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1253 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1255 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1256 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1257 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1261 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1263 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1267 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1269 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1270 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1274 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1276 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1277 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1278 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1279 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1280 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1281 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1282 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1283 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1284 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1285 it is an obsolete program.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1289 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1291 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1295 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1299 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1301 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1305 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1307 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1309 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1311 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1315 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1321 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * typo: Closes, #78567
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1327 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1333 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1339 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1342 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1343 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1344 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1345 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1346 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1350 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1353 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1358 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1361 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1362 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1363 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1364 backwards-compatability.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1368 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1371 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1372 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1373 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1374 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1375 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1376 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1378 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1379 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1380 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1382 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1384 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1385 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1386 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1387 should now be raised to severity important..
1388 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1389 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1393 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1396 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1401 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1407 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1413 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1419 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1426 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1429 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1430 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1431 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1432 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1436 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1442 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1445 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1446 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1447 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1448 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1449 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1450 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1455 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1458 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1462 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1468 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1471 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1476 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1479 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1480 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1481 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1482 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1486 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1490 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1493 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1496 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1497 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1500 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1502 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1503 the TODO entry about it.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1507 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1514 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1517 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1518 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1522 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1525 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1526 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1527 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1528 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1532 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1538 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1545 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1548 (this appears to be logal).
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1552 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1555 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1556 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1557 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1558 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1562 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1568 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1571 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1572 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1573 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1574 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1578 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1584 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1587 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1591 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1598 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1601 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1602 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1603 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1608 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1615 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1621 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1624 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1625 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1626 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1627 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1628 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1629 notice until v2 is complete.
1630 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1631 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1632 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1633 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1634 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1635 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1637 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1638 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1639 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1640 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1644 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1650 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1657 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1660 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1664 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1671 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1674 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1675 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1676 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1677 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1682 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1685 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1686 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1687 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1692 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1695 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1696 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1700 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1703 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1707 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1710 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1714 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1721 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1724 depend on the build and install targets.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1728 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1731 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1735 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1742 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1748 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1754 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1757 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1758 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1759 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1760 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1761 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1762 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1764 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1765 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1766 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1767 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1768 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1769 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1770 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1774 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1780 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1786 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1789 right place. Closes: #55065
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1793 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1800 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1803 * Copyright date updates.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1807 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1810 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1815 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1821 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1828 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1834 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1840 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1846 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1849 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1850 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1851 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1852 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1853 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1854 bits until all files have been registered.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1858 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_installmanpages:
1861 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1862 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1863 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1864 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1865 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1866 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1867 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1868 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1869 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1870 otherwise change the result at all.
1872 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1873 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1874 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1875 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1876 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1881 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1887 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1890 act on files that don't exist.
1891 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1892 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1893 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1895 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1896 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1897 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1898 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1902 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1908 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1914 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1917 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1921 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1924 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1926 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1927 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1928 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1932 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1935 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1936 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1937 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1938 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1939 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1940 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1941 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1943 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1945 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1949 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1956 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1962 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1968 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1971 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1975 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1981 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1987 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1990 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1991 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1992 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1993 I made some changes, though:
1994 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1995 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1996 that is a clear violation of policy.
1997 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1998 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1999 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2000 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2001 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2002 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2003 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2004 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2005 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2007 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2011 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2017 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2020 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2024 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2027 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2028 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2033 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2039 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2046 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2049 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2050 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2051 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2052 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2053 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2054 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2055 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2059 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2065 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2069 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2070 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2074 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2080 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2083 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2087 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2090 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2091 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2095 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2097 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2102 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2106 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2110 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2113 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2114 for the dependancies to be generated.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2118 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2121 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2125 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2128 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2129 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2130 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2135 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2138 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2139 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2143 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2149 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2155 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2158 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2162 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2168 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2171 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2172 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2173 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2174 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2175 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2176 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2177 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2178 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2179 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2180 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2181 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2182 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2186 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2189 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2190 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2192 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2193 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2194 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2195 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2196 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2197 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2199 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2200 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2204 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2207 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2211 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2218 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2221 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2226 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2229 for building debhelper.
2230 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2234 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2241 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2244 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2248 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2251 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2252 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2253 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2254 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2255 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2256 it's always available.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2260 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2263 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2264 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2265 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2269 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2272 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2273 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2277 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2283 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2286 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2290 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2296 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2299 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2300 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2301 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2305 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2308 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2313 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2316 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2317 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2319 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2320 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2324 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2330 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2336 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2339 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2343 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2346 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2347 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2349 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2353 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2356 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2357 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2358 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2362 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2365 things if CDPATH is set.
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2369 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2375 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2378 seems to make sense for the transition.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2382 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2385 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2390 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2393 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2394 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2398 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2401 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2405 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2408 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2409 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2410 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2411 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2415 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2421 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2424 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2425 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2426 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2427 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2428 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2429 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2430 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2431 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2432 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2433 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2438 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2441 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2442 * README: mention doc/v2
2443 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2444 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2448 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2450 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2451 be using this script RSN.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2455 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2458 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2459 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2460 more than 1 init script.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2464 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2467 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2471 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * Changed perl version detection.
2474 * Changed call to find.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2478 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2481 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2483 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2488 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Really include dh_installpam.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2494 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2497 * Wrote man page for same.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2501 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2504 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2505 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2510 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2517 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2520 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2521 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2522 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2523 x bit was being set!
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2527 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2530 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2531 well. (Closes: 38900)
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2535 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2538 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2539 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2543 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2549 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2556 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2562 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2565 help from Julian Gilbey.
2566 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2567 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2568 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2569 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2570 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2571 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2572 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2577 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2583 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2590 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2596 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2602 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2605 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2609 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2612 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2616 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2619 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2623 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2629 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2632 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2636 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2642 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2648 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2651 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2652 may be deleted. (#35845)
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2656 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Various man page enhancements.
2659 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2664 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2667 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2668 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2672 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2675 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2676 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2677 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2679 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2680 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2685 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2691 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Another very minor typo fix.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2697 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Very minor typo fix.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2703 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2706 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2707 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2711 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2717 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2720 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2721 variables properly (#34850).
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2725 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2731 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2734 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2735 (automatically generated by build process).
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2739 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2741 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2745 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2748 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2749 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2751 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2755 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2758 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2762 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * README: minor typo fix.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2768 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2771 leave it at that. :-)
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2775 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2781 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2787 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2790 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2791 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2792 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2796 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2799 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2803 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2806 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2810 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2813 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2814 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2815 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2816 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2820 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2823 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2824 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2825 Craig Small for spotting this.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2829 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2832 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2833 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2837 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2843 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2846 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2850 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2852 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2853 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2854 working on the last version of debhelper.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2858 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2861 being made. (#23255)
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2865 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2871 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2874 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2878 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2881 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2882 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2883 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2884 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2888 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2891 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2892 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2893 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2894 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2896 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2897 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2899 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2904 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2910 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2916 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2919 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2920 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2921 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2922 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2923 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2924 suidregister actually supports it.
2925 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2926 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2930 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2937 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2940 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2941 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2942 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2943 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2944 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2945 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2946 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2950 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2952 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2953 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2957 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2960 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2961 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2962 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2963 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2967 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2970 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2972 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2973 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2974 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2975 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2976 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2977 effect, either. (#30118)
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2981 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2987 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2990 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2991 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2995 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3001 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3004 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3005 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3006 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3007 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3011 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3014 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3015 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3019 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3025 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3028 packages, painlessly.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3032 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3038 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3044 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3050 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * The perl conversion is complete.
3054 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3056 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3057 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3058 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3063 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3066 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3067 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3068 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3072 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3075 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3077 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3079 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3080 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3084 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3087 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3088 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3092 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3098 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3101 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3102 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3103 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3104 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3105 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3109 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3112 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3113 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3114 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3115 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3119 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3122 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3126 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3129 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3130 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3131 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3132 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3133 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3134 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3135 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3136 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3140 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3146 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3149 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3150 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3151 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3156 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3159 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3163 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3166 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3170 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3173 sections of shared libraries.
3174 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3175 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3176 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3177 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3178 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3179 things you don't want them to.
3180 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3181 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3185 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3188 shared libraries. (#26414)
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3192 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3194 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3195 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3196 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3197 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3201 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3205 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3207 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3208 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3209 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3210 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3211 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3215 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3218 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3222 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3225 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3226 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3231 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3234 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3238 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3241 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3242 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3243 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3244 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3245 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3247 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3248 remove debian/files properly.
3249 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3250 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3251 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3252 * Removed bogus menu file.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3256 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3259 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3263 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3266 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3267 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3268 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3269 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3270 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3271 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3275 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3278 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3279 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3280 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3281 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3285 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3292 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3295 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3296 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3298 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3299 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3300 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3301 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3302 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3303 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3307 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3310 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3311 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3312 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3313 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3314 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3315 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3316 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3317 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3318 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3319 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3320 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3321 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3322 passed any switches.
3323 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3327 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3330 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3331 at all for a long while.
3332 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3333 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3334 large chunks in the process.
3335 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3336 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3337 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3342 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3345 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3347 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3352 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3355 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3356 that don't always have the same files in them.
3357 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3358 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3359 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3363 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3367 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3368 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3369 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3370 updating 27 man pages.
3371 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3372 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3373 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3374 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3375 programs act on. (#25247)
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3379 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3383 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3384 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3385 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3386 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3387 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3388 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3393 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3400 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3407 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3410 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3414 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3420 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3423 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3424 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3425 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3426 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3427 package by accident.
3428 * Is version 1.0 next?
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3432 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3435 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3436 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3440 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3443 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3444 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3445 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3446 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3447 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3449 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3454 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3457 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3458 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3462 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3465 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3469 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3472 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3473 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3478 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3484 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3487 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3488 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3493 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3499 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3502 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3503 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3504 past week. Thanks, guys!
3506 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3507 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3508 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3509 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3510 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3511 would do in the same situation.
3512 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3513 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3515 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3517 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3518 permissions changed.
3519 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3520 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3521 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3522 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3523 files are treated identically.
3524 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3525 * Minor man page fixes.
3526 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3527 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3528 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3532 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3535 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3536 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3537 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3538 use -X multiple times, too.
3539 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3540 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3544 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3547 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3548 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3552 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3555 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3559 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3562 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3563 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3564 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3565 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3566 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3567 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3568 shape if you're starting a new package.
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3572 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3575 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3579 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3582 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3583 because of missing symlinks.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3587 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3593 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3596 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3597 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3598 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3599 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3600 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3602 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3603 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3607 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3609 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3610 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3611 to be changed after the fact :-)
3612 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3616 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3619 no version string after the -V.
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3623 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3625 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3626 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3631 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3634 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3638 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3641 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3642 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3643 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3644 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3645 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3646 I always welcome corrections!
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3650 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3656 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3659 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3660 * Documented this new switch.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3664 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3667 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3668 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3669 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3670 no packages use the old behavior.
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3674 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3677 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3678 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3682 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3685 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3689 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3695 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3698 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3702 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3705 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3706 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3707 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3711 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3717 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3720 into the source package by accident.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3724 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3727 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3728 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3729 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3730 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3731 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3732 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3737 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3741 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3742 inspired to implement some of it.
3743 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3747 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3750 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3754 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3757 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3758 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3762 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3765 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3766 have done.) (#17598)
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3770 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3776 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3782 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3785 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3789 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3792 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3793 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3797 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3800 argument processor in perl.
3801 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3802 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3803 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3804 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3808 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3811 type directories. (#16933)
3812 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3813 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3814 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3815 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3816 are supported. (#16935)
3817 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3822 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3825 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3829 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3833 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3834 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3835 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3836 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3837 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3838 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3842 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3845 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3846 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3848 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3849 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3850 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3851 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3852 a given package, or -i or -a.
3853 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3854 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3855 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3856 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3857 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3858 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3859 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3860 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3861 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3863 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3864 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3865 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3869 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3872 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3873 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3878 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3881 does not have a section.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3885 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3888 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3889 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3890 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3894 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Fixed typo #16215.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3900 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3903 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3904 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3905 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3906 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3907 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3912 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3915 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3916 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3917 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3922 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3928 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3934 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3937 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3938 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3939 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3940 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3941 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3942 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3946 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3952 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3955 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3959 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3962 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3963 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3964 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3968 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3971 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3975 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3981 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3984 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3988 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3991 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3995 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4001 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4004 postinst, postrm, etc.
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4008 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4014 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4017 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4018 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4019 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4020 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4021 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4025 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4028 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4029 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4033 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4036 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4040 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4043 installing package files into.
4044 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4049 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4053 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4057 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4063 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4066 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4070 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4073 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4074 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4075 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4076 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4080 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4082 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4083 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4084 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4085 multiple binary packages.
4086 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4087 should rebuild them with this version.
4088 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4092 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4095 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4099 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4102 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4106 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4109 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4110 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4111 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4112 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4113 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4114 debian/README.debian.
4115 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4116 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4117 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4118 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4119 in a few situations.)
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4123 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4129 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4135 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4138 * Fixed several man pages.
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4142 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4145 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4146 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4150 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4153 is ready for general use.
4154 * Added man pages for all commands.
4155 * Multiple binary package support.
4156 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4157 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4158 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4160 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4161 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4162 auto-installed as parameters.
4163 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4165 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4168 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4169 the package build directory it is to act on.
4170 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4171 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4172 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4176 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4178 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4179 ready to replace debstd.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400