1 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
8 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
11 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
12 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
13 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
14 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
15 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
16 program those options go to. So, for example,
17 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
18 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
19 something complex. Closes: #89311
20 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
24 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
27 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
28 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
29 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
33 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
36 through loop. Closes: #98598
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
40 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
44 this (dh_* should be called, really).
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
48 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
51 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
52 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
53 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
57 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
60 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
61 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
65 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
68 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
72 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
75 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
76 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
80 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
83 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
84 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
85 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
89 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
92 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
93 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
94 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
98 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
101 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
105 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
111 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Typo, Closes: #92407
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
117 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
123 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
129 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
132 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
136 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
139 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
140 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
141 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
142 followed. Closes: #85483
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
146 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
148 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
149 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
150 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
154 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
157 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
158 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
159 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
160 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
161 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
162 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
163 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
164 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
165 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
166 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
167 Closes: #88464, #77743
168 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
169 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
170 us to deal with that gracefully.
171 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
173 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
174 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
175 a while, Closes: #51225
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
179 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
185 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
188 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
192 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
196 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
201 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
204 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
205 don't make packlist files.
206 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
207 debhelper coding standards.
208 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
209 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
213 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
216 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
220 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
223 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
224 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
225 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
226 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
227 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
228 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
229 but is mildly deprecated.
230 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
231 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
232 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
233 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
234 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
235 switching to statoverrides..
236 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
237 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
238 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
239 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
240 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
241 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
243 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
244 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
245 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
246 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
247 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
248 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
249 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
250 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
251 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
253 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
254 variable names, pod man pages).
255 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
256 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
257 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
258 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
259 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
260 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
261 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
265 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
271 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
278 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
281 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
285 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
287 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
288 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
289 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
293 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
295 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
296 they were previously ignored.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
300 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
302 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
303 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
307 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
309 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
310 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
311 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
315 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
317 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
321 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
323 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
324 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
328 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
330 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
331 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
332 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
333 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
334 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
335 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
336 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
337 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
338 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
339 it is an obsolete program.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
343 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
345 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
349 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
353 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
355 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
359 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
361 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
363 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
365 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
369 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
375 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
377 * typo: Closes, #78567
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
381 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
383 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
387 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
393 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
395 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
396 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
397 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
398 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
399 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
400 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
404 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
407 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
412 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
415 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
416 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
417 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
418 backwards-compatability.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
422 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
424 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
425 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
426 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
427 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
428 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
429 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
430 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
432 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
433 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
434 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
436 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
438 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
439 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
440 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
441 should now be raised to severity important..
442 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
443 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
447 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
450 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
455 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Typo, Closes: #77441
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
461 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Completed the fix from the last version.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
467 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
473 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
475 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
480 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
483 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
484 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
485 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
486 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
490 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
496 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
499 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
500 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
501 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
502 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
503 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
504 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
509 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
511 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
512 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
516 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
522 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
525 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
530 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
533 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
534 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
535 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
536 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
540 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
544 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
547 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
550 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
551 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
554 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
556 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
557 the TODO entry about it.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
561 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
568 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
571 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
572 prevent that. Closes: #73052
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
576 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Typo, Closes: #72932
579 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
580 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
581 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
582 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
586 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
592 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
599 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
602 (this appears to be logal).
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
606 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
609 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
610 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
611 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
612 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
616 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
622 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
624 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
625 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
626 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
627 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
628 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
632 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
634 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
638 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
640 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
641 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
645 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
652 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
655 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
656 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
657 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
662 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
669 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
675 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
677 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
678 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
679 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
680 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
681 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
682 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
683 notice until v2 is complete.
684 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
685 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
686 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
687 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
688 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
689 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
691 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
692 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
693 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
694 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
698 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
704 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
711 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
714 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
718 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
725 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
728 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
729 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
730 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
731 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
736 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
739 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
740 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
741 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
746 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
749 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
750 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
754 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
757 just skip files that end in -\d+.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
761 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
764 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
768 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
775 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
777 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
778 depend on the build and install targets.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
782 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
785 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
789 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
796 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
802 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
808 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
811 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
812 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
813 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
814 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
815 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
816 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
818 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
819 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
820 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
821 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
822 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
823 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
824 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
828 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
834 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
840 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
843 right place. Closes: #55065
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
847 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
854 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Make all examples rules files executable.
857 * Copyright date updates.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
861 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
864 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
869 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
875 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
882 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
888 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
894 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
900 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
903 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
904 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
905 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
906 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
907 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
908 bits until all files have been registered.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
912 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_installmanpages:
915 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
916 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
917 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
918 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
919 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
920 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
921 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
922 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
923 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
924 otherwise change the result at all.
926 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
927 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
928 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
929 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
930 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
935 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
941 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
944 act on files that don't exist.
945 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
946 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
947 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
949 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
950 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
951 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
952 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
956 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
962 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
968 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
971 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
975 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
978 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
980 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
981 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
982 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
986 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
989 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
990 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
991 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
992 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
993 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
994 does not compress. Closes: #41733
995 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
997 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
999 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1003 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1010 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1016 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1022 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1025 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1029 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1035 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1041 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1044 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1045 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1046 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1047 I made some changes, though:
1048 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1049 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1050 that is a clear violation of policy.
1051 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1052 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1053 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1054 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1055 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1056 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1057 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1058 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1059 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1061 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1065 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1071 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1074 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1078 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1081 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1082 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1087 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1100 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1103 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1104 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1105 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1106 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1107 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1108 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1109 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1113 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1119 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1123 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1124 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1128 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1134 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1137 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1141 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1144 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1145 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1149 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1151 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1156 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1160 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1164 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1167 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1168 for the dependancies to be generated.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1172 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1175 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1179 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1182 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1183 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1184 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1189 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1192 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1193 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1197 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1203 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1209 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1212 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1222 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1225 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1226 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1227 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1228 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1229 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1230 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1231 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1232 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1233 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1234 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1235 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1236 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1240 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1243 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1244 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1246 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1247 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1248 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1249 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1250 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1251 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1253 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1254 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1258 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1261 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1265 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1272 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1275 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1280 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1283 for building debhelper.
1284 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1295 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1298 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1302 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1305 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1306 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1307 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1308 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1309 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1310 it's always available.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1314 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1317 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1318 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1319 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1323 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1326 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1327 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1331 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1337 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1340 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1344 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1350 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1353 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1354 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1355 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1359 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1362 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1367 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1370 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1371 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1373 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1374 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1378 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1384 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1390 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1393 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1397 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1400 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1401 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1403 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1407 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1410 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1411 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1412 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1416 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1419 things if CDPATH is set.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1423 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1429 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1432 seems to make sense for the transition.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1436 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1439 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1444 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1447 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1448 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1452 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1455 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1459 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1462 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1463 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1464 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1465 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1469 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1475 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1478 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1479 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1480 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1481 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1482 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1483 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1484 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1485 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1486 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1487 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1492 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1495 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1496 * README: mention doc/v2
1497 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1498 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1502 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1504 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1505 be using this script RSN.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1509 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1512 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1513 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1514 more than 1 init script.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1518 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1521 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1525 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Changed perl version detection.
1528 * Changed call to find.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1532 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1535 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1537 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1542 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Really include dh_installpam.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1548 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1551 * Wrote man page for same.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1555 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1558 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1559 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1564 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1571 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1574 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1575 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1576 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1577 x bit was being set!
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1581 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1584 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1585 well. (Closes: 38900)
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1589 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1592 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1593 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1597 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1603 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1610 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1616 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1619 help from Julian Gilbey.
1620 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1621 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1622 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1623 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1624 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1625 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1626 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1631 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1637 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1644 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1650 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1656 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1659 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1663 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1666 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1670 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1673 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1677 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1683 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1686 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1690 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1696 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1702 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1705 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1706 may be deleted. (#35845)
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1710 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Various man page enhancements.
1713 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1718 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1721 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1722 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1726 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1729 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1730 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1731 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1733 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1734 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1739 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1745 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Another very minor typo fix.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1751 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Very minor typo fix.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1757 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1760 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1761 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1765 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1771 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1774 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1775 variables properly (#34850).
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1779 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1785 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1788 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1789 (automatically generated by build process).
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1793 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1795 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1799 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1802 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1803 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1805 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1809 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1812 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1816 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * README: minor typo fix.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1822 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1825 leave it at that. :-)
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1829 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1835 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1841 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1844 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1845 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1846 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1850 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1853 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1857 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1860 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1864 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1867 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1868 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1869 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1870 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1874 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1877 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1878 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1879 Craig Small for spotting this.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1883 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1886 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1887 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1891 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1897 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1900 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1904 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1906 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1907 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1908 working on the last version of debhelper.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1912 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1915 being made. (#23255)
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1919 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1925 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1928 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1932 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1935 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1936 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1937 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1938 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1942 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1945 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1946 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1947 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1948 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1950 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1951 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1953 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1958 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1964 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1970 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1973 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1974 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1975 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1976 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1977 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1978 suidregister actually supports it.
1979 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1980 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1984 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1991 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1994 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1995 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1996 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1997 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1998 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1999 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2000 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2004 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2006 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2007 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2011 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2014 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2015 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2016 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2017 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2021 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2024 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2026 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2027 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2028 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2029 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2030 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2031 effect, either. (#30118)
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2035 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2041 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2044 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2045 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2049 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2055 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2058 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2059 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2060 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2061 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2065 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2068 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2069 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2073 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2079 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2082 packages, painlessly.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2086 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2092 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2098 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2104 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * The perl conversion is complete.
2108 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2110 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2111 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2112 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2117 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2120 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2121 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2122 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2126 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2129 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2131 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2133 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2134 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2138 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2141 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2142 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2146 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2152 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2155 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2156 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2157 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2158 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2159 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2163 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2166 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2167 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2168 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2169 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2173 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2176 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2180 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2183 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2184 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2185 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2186 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2187 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2188 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2189 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2190 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2194 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2200 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2203 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2204 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2205 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2210 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2213 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2217 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2220 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2224 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2227 sections of shared libraries.
2228 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2229 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2230 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2231 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2232 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2233 things you don't want them to.
2234 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2235 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2239 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2242 shared libraries. (#26414)
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2246 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2248 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2249 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2250 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2251 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2255 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2259 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2261 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2262 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2263 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2264 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2265 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2269 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2272 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2276 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2279 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2280 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2285 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2288 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2292 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2295 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2296 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2297 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2298 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2299 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2301 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2302 remove debian/files properly.
2303 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2304 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2305 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2306 * Removed bogus menu file.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2310 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2313 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2317 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2320 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2321 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2322 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2323 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2324 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2325 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2329 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2332 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2333 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2334 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2335 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2339 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2346 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2349 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2350 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2352 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2353 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2354 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2355 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2356 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2357 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2361 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2364 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2365 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2366 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2367 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2368 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2369 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2370 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2371 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2372 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2373 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2374 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2375 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2376 passed any switches.
2377 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2381 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2384 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2385 at all for a long while.
2386 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2387 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2388 large chunks in the process.
2389 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2390 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2391 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2396 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2399 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2401 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2406 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2409 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2410 that don't always have the same files in them.
2411 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2412 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2413 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2417 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2421 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2422 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2423 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2424 updating 27 man pages.
2425 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2426 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2427 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2428 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2429 programs act on. (#25247)
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2433 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2437 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2438 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2439 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2440 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2441 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2442 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2447 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2454 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2461 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2464 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2468 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2474 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2477 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2478 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2479 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2480 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2481 package by accident.
2482 * Is version 1.0 next?
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2486 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2489 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2490 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2494 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2497 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2498 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2499 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2500 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2501 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2503 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2508 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2511 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2512 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2516 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2519 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2523 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2526 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2527 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2532 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2538 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2541 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2542 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2547 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2553 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2556 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2557 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2558 past week. Thanks, guys!
2560 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2561 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2562 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2563 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2564 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2565 would do in the same situation.
2566 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2567 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2569 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2571 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2572 permissions changed.
2573 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2574 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2575 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2576 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2577 files are treated identically.
2578 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2579 * Minor man page fixes.
2580 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2581 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2582 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2586 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2589 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2590 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2591 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2592 use -X multiple times, too.
2593 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2594 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2598 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2601 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2602 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2606 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2609 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2613 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2616 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2617 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2618 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2619 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2620 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2621 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2622 shape if you're starting a new package.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2626 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2629 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2633 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2636 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2637 because of missing symlinks.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2641 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2647 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2650 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2651 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2652 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2653 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2654 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2656 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2657 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2661 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2663 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2664 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2665 to be changed after the fact :-)
2666 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2670 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2673 no version string after the -V.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2677 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2679 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2680 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2685 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2688 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2692 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2695 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2696 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2697 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2698 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2699 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2700 I always welcome corrections!
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2704 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2710 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2713 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2714 * Documented this new switch.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2718 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2721 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2722 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2723 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2724 no packages use the old behavior.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2728 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2731 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2732 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2736 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2739 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2743 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2749 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2752 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2756 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2759 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2760 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2761 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2765 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2771 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2774 into the source package by accident.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2778 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2781 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2782 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2783 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2784 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2785 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2786 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2791 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2795 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2796 inspired to implement some of it.
2797 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2801 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2804 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2808 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2811 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2812 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2816 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2819 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2820 have done.) (#17598)
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2824 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2830 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2836 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2839 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2843 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2846 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2847 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2851 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2854 argument processor in perl.
2855 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2856 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2857 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2858 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2862 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2865 type directories. (#16933)
2866 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2867 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2868 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2869 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2870 are supported. (#16935)
2871 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2876 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2879 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2883 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2887 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2888 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2889 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2890 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2891 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2892 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2896 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2899 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2900 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2902 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2903 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2904 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2905 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2906 a given package, or -i or -a.
2907 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2908 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2909 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2910 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2911 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2912 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2913 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2914 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2915 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2917 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2918 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2919 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2923 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2926 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2927 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2932 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2935 does not have a section.
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2939 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2942 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2943 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2944 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2948 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * Fixed typo #16215.
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2954 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2957 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2958 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2959 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2960 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2961 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2966 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2969 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2970 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2971 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2976 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2982 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2988 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2991 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2992 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2993 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2994 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2995 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2996 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3000 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3006 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3009 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3013 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3016 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3017 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3018 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3022 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3025 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3029 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3035 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3038 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3042 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3045 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3049 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3055 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3058 postinst, postrm, etc.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3062 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3068 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3071 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3072 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3073 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3074 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3075 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3079 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3082 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3083 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3087 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3090 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3094 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3097 installing package files into.
3098 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3103 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3107 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3111 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3117 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3120 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3124 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3127 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3128 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3129 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3130 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3134 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3136 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3137 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3138 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3139 multiple binary packages.
3140 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3141 should rebuild them with this version.
3142 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3146 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3149 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3153 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3156 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3160 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3163 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3164 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3165 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3166 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3167 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3168 debian/README.debian.
3169 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3170 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3171 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3172 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3173 in a few situations.)
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3177 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3183 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3189 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3192 * Fixed several man pages.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3196 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3199 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3200 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3204 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3207 is ready for general use.
3208 * Added man pages for all commands.
3209 * Multiple binary package support.
3210 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3211 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3212 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3214 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3215 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3216 auto-installed as parameters.
3217 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3219 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3222 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3223 the package build directory it is to act on.
3224 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3225 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3226 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3230 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3232 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3233 ready to replace debstd.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400