1 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
4 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
8 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
11 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
12 right thing. Closes: #150644
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
16 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
19 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
23 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
25 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
30 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
33 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
34 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
39 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
45 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
47 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
48 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
52 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
55 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
56 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
61 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
64 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
68 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
74 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
77 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
78 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
82 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
88 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Removing perl warning message.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
94 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
97 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
98 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
99 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
100 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
101 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
102 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
103 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
104 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
108 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
114 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
121 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
124 debconf-mergetemplate.
125 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
126 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
130 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
133 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
134 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
135 dh_install, which ...
136 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
137 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
138 mess, as it uses debian/install.
139 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
140 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
141 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
142 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
143 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
144 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
145 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
146 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
147 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
148 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
149 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
151 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
152 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
153 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
154 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
155 course there's -X ..)
156 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
157 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
158 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
160 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
161 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
162 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
163 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
164 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
169 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
175 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Typo, Closes: #139176
178 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
182 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
184 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
188 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
194 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
200 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
206 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
209 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
210 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
211 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
212 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
214 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
215 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
219 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
225 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Typo, Closes: #132454
228 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
232 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
235 upset. Closes: #131322
237 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
239 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
242 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
243 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
244 line, as well as in debian/rules.
245 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
246 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
247 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
248 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
249 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
250 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
251 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
252 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
253 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
254 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
255 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
256 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
258 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
262 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
265 - Better indenting of generated code.
266 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
270 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
274 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
275 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
276 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
277 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
278 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
279 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
280 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
284 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
287 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
291 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
294 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
295 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
296 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
297 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
298 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
299 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
300 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
301 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
302 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
303 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
304 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
305 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
306 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
307 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
308 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
313 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
319 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
322 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
323 * fixed dh_testdir man page
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
327 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Typo, Closes: #122679
330 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
331 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
335 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
341 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
344 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
345 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
346 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
347 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
348 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
353 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
355 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
359 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
362 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
366 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
369 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
374 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Typo, Closes: #114135
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
380 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
383 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
387 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
389 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
393 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
397 Also some indentation fixes.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
401 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
404 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
405 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
406 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
407 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
408 Closes: #106514, #85520
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
412 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Typo, Closes: #104405
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
418 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
424 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
426 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
430 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
436 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
442 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
445 change it in debhelper v4..
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
449 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
455 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
458 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
462 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
465 is not essential. Closes: #100430
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
469 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
475 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
478 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
479 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
480 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
481 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
482 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
483 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
484 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
485 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
486 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
487 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
488 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
489 prefixed with ".debhelper")
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
493 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
495 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
496 look just like shared libs, but are not.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
500 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
507 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
510 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
511 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
512 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
513 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
514 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
515 program those options go to. So, for example,
516 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
517 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
518 something complex. Closes: #89311
519 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
523 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
526 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
527 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
528 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
532 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
535 through loop. Closes: #98598
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
539 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Missing semi-colon.
542 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
543 this (dh_* should be called, really).
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
547 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
550 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
551 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
552 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
556 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
559 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
560 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
564 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
567 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
571 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
574 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
575 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
579 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
582 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
583 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
584 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
588 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
591 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
592 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
593 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
597 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
600 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
604 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
610 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Typo, Closes: #92407
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
616 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
622 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
628 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
631 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
635 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
638 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
639 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
640 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
641 followed. Closes: #85483
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
645 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
647 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
648 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
649 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
653 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
655 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
656 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
657 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
658 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
659 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
660 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
661 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
662 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
663 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
664 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
665 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
666 Closes: #88464, #77743
667 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
668 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
669 us to deal with that gracefully.
670 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
672 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
673 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
674 a while, Closes: #51225
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
678 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
684 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
687 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
691 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
695 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
700 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
703 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
704 don't make packlist files.
705 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
706 debhelper coding standards.
707 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
708 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
712 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
715 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
719 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
722 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
723 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
724 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
725 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
726 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
727 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
728 but is mildly deprecated.
729 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
730 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
731 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
732 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
733 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
734 switching to statoverrides..
735 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
736 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
737 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
738 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
739 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
740 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
742 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
743 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
744 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
745 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
746 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
747 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
748 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
749 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
750 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
752 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
753 variable names, pod man pages).
754 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
755 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
756 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
757 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
758 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
759 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
760 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
764 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
770 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
777 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
780 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
784 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
786 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
787 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
788 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
792 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
794 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
795 they were previously ignored.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
799 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
801 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
802 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
806 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
808 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
809 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
810 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
814 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
816 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
820 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
822 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
823 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
827 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
829 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
830 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
831 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
832 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
833 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
834 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
835 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
836 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
837 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
838 it is an obsolete program.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
842 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
844 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
848 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
852 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
854 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
858 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
860 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
862 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
864 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
868 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
874 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
876 * typo: Closes, #78567
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
880 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
886 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
892 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
894 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
895 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
896 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
897 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
898 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
899 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
903 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
906 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
911 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
914 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
915 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
916 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
917 backwards-compatability.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
921 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
923 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
924 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
925 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
926 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
927 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
928 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
929 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
931 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
932 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
933 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
935 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
937 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
938 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
939 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
940 should now be raised to severity important..
941 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
942 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
946 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
949 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
954 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Typo, Closes: #77441
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
960 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Completed the fix from the last version.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
966 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
968 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
972 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
974 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
979 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
982 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
983 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
984 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
985 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
989 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
995 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
998 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
999 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1000 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1001 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1002 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1003 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1008 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1011 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1015 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1021 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1024 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1029 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1032 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1033 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1034 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1035 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1039 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1043 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1046 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1049 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1050 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1053 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1055 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1056 the TODO entry about it.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1060 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1067 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1070 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1071 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1075 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1078 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1079 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1080 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1081 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1085 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1091 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1098 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1101 (this appears to be logal).
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1105 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1108 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1109 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1110 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1111 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1115 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1121 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1124 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1125 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1126 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1127 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1131 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1137 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1140 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1144 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1151 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1154 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1155 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1156 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1161 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1168 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1174 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1177 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1178 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1179 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1180 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1181 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1182 notice until v2 is complete.
1183 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1184 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1185 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1186 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1187 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1188 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1190 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1191 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1192 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1193 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1197 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1203 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1210 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1213 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1217 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1224 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1227 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1228 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1229 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1230 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1235 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1238 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1239 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1240 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1245 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1248 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1249 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1253 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1256 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1260 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1263 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1274 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1277 depend on the build and install targets.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1281 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1284 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1295 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1301 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1307 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1310 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1311 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1312 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1313 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1314 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1315 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1317 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1318 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1319 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1320 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1321 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1322 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1323 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1327 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1333 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1339 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1342 right place. Closes: #55065
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1346 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1353 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1356 * Copyright date updates.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1360 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1363 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1368 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1374 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1381 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1387 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1393 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1399 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1402 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1403 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1404 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1405 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1406 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1407 bits until all files have been registered.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1411 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_installmanpages:
1414 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1415 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1416 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1417 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1418 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1419 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1420 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1421 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1422 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1423 otherwise change the result at all.
1425 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1426 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1427 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1428 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1429 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1434 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1440 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1443 act on files that don't exist.
1444 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1445 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1446 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1448 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1449 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1450 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1451 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1455 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1461 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1467 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1470 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1474 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1477 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1479 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1480 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1481 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1485 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1488 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1489 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1490 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1491 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1492 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1493 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1494 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1496 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1498 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1502 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1509 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1515 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1521 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1524 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1528 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1534 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1540 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1543 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1544 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1545 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1546 I made some changes, though:
1547 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1548 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1549 that is a clear violation of policy.
1550 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1551 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1552 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1553 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1554 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1555 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1556 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1557 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1558 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1560 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1564 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1570 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1573 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1577 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1580 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1581 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1586 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1592 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1599 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1602 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1603 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1604 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1605 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1606 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1607 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1608 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1612 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1618 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1622 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1623 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1627 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1633 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1636 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1640 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1643 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1644 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1648 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1650 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1655 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1659 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1663 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1666 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1667 for the dependancies to be generated.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1671 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1674 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1678 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1681 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1682 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1683 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1688 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1691 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1692 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1696 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1702 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1708 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1711 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1715 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1721 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1724 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1725 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1726 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1727 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1728 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1729 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1730 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1731 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1732 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1733 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1734 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1735 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1739 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1742 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1743 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1745 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1746 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1747 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1748 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1749 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1750 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1752 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1753 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1757 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1760 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1764 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1771 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1774 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1779 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1782 for building debhelper.
1783 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1787 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1794 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1797 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1801 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1804 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1805 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1806 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1807 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1808 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1809 it's always available.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1813 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1816 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1817 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1818 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1822 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1825 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1826 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1830 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1836 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1839 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1843 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1849 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1852 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1853 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1854 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1858 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1861 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1866 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1869 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1870 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1872 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1873 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1883 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1889 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1892 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1896 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1899 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1900 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1902 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1909 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1910 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1911 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1915 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1918 things if CDPATH is set.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1922 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1928 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1931 seems to make sense for the transition.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1935 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1938 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1943 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1946 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1947 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1951 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1954 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1958 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1961 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1962 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1963 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1964 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1968 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1974 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1977 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1978 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1979 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1980 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1981 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1982 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1983 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1984 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1985 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1986 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1991 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1994 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1995 * README: mention doc/v2
1996 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1997 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2001 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2003 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2004 be using this script RSN.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2008 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2011 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2012 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2013 more than 1 init script.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2017 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2020 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2024 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Changed perl version detection.
2027 * Changed call to find.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2031 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2034 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2036 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2041 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Really include dh_installpam.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2047 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2050 * Wrote man page for same.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2054 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2057 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2058 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2063 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2070 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2073 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2074 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2075 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2076 x bit was being set!
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2080 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2083 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2084 well. (Closes: 38900)
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2088 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2091 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2092 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2096 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2102 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2109 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2115 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2118 help from Julian Gilbey.
2119 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2120 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2121 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2122 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2123 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2124 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2125 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2130 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2136 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2143 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2149 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2155 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2158 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2162 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2165 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2169 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2172 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2176 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2182 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2185 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2189 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2195 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2201 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2204 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2205 may be deleted. (#35845)
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2209 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Various man page enhancements.
2212 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2217 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2220 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2221 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2225 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2228 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2229 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2230 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2232 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2233 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2238 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2244 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Another very minor typo fix.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2250 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Very minor typo fix.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2256 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2259 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2260 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2264 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2270 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2273 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2274 variables properly (#34850).
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2278 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2284 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2287 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2288 (automatically generated by build process).
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2292 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2294 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2298 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2301 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2302 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2304 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2308 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2311 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2315 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * README: minor typo fix.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2321 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2324 leave it at that. :-)
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2328 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2334 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2340 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2343 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2344 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2345 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2349 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2352 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2356 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2359 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2363 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2366 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2367 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2368 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2369 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2373 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2376 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2377 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2378 Craig Small for spotting this.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2382 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2385 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2386 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2390 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2396 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2399 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2403 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2405 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2406 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2407 working on the last version of debhelper.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2411 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2414 being made. (#23255)
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2418 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2424 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2427 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2431 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2434 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2435 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2436 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2437 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2441 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2444 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2445 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2446 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2447 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2449 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2450 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2452 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2457 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2463 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2469 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2472 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2473 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2474 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2475 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2476 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2477 suidregister actually supports it.
2478 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2479 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2483 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2490 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2493 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2494 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2495 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2496 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2497 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2498 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2499 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2503 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2505 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2506 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2510 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2513 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2514 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2515 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2516 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2520 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2523 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2525 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2526 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2527 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2528 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2529 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2530 effect, either. (#30118)
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2534 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2540 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2543 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2544 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2548 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2554 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2557 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2558 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2559 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2560 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2564 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2567 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2568 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2572 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2578 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2581 packages, painlessly.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2585 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2591 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2597 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2603 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * The perl conversion is complete.
2607 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2609 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2610 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2611 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2616 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2619 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2620 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2621 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2625 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2628 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2630 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2632 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2633 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2637 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2640 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2641 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2645 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2651 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2654 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2655 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2656 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2657 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2658 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2662 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2665 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2666 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2667 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2668 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2672 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2675 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2679 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2682 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2683 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2684 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2685 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2686 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2687 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2688 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2689 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2693 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2699 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2702 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2703 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2704 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2709 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2712 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2716 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2719 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2723 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2726 sections of shared libraries.
2727 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2728 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2729 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2730 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2731 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2732 things you don't want them to.
2733 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2734 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2738 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2741 shared libraries. (#26414)
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2745 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2747 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2748 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2749 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2750 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2754 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2758 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2760 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2761 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2762 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2763 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2764 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2768 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2771 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2775 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2778 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2779 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2784 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2787 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2791 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2794 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2795 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2796 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2797 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2798 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2800 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2801 remove debian/files properly.
2802 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2803 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2804 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2805 * Removed bogus menu file.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2809 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2812 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2816 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2819 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2820 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2821 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2822 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2823 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2824 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2828 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2831 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2832 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2833 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2834 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2838 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2845 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2848 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2849 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2851 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2852 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2853 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2854 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2855 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2856 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2860 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2863 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2864 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2865 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2866 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2867 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2868 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2869 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2870 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2871 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2872 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2873 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2874 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2875 passed any switches.
2876 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2880 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2883 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2884 at all for a long while.
2885 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2886 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2887 large chunks in the process.
2888 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2889 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2890 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2895 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2898 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2900 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2905 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2908 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2909 that don't always have the same files in them.
2910 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2911 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2912 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2916 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2920 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2921 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2922 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2923 updating 27 man pages.
2924 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2925 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2926 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2927 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2928 programs act on. (#25247)
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2932 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2936 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2937 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2938 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2939 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2940 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2941 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2946 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2953 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2960 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2963 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2967 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2973 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2976 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2977 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2978 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2979 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2980 package by accident.
2981 * Is version 1.0 next?
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2985 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2988 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2989 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2993 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2996 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2997 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2998 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2999 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3000 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3002 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3007 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3010 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3011 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3015 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3018 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3022 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3025 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3026 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3031 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3037 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3040 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3041 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3046 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3052 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3055 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3056 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3057 past week. Thanks, guys!
3059 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3060 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3061 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3062 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3063 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3064 would do in the same situation.
3065 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3066 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3068 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3070 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3071 permissions changed.
3072 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3073 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3074 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3075 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3076 files are treated identically.
3077 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3078 * Minor man page fixes.
3079 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3080 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3081 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3085 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3088 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3089 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3090 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3091 use -X multiple times, too.
3092 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3093 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3097 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3100 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3101 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3105 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3108 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3112 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3115 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3116 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3117 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3118 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3119 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3120 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3121 shape if you're starting a new package.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3125 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3128 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3132 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3135 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3136 because of missing symlinks.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3140 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3146 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3149 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3150 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3151 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3152 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3153 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3155 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3156 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3160 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3162 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3163 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3164 to be changed after the fact :-)
3165 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3169 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3172 no version string after the -V.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3176 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3178 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3179 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3184 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3187 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3191 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3194 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3195 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3196 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3197 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3198 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3199 I always welcome corrections!
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3203 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3209 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3212 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3213 * Documented this new switch.
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3217 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3220 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3221 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3222 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3223 no packages use the old behavior.
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3227 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3230 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3231 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3235 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3238 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3242 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3248 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3251 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3255 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3258 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3259 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3260 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3264 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3270 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3273 into the source package by accident.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3277 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3280 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3281 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3282 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3283 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3284 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3285 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3290 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3294 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3295 inspired to implement some of it.
3296 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3300 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3303 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3307 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3310 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3311 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3315 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3318 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3319 have done.) (#17598)
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3323 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3329 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3335 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3338 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3342 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3345 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3346 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3350 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3353 argument processor in perl.
3354 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3355 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3356 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3357 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3361 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3364 type directories. (#16933)
3365 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3366 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3367 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3368 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3369 are supported. (#16935)
3370 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3375 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3378 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3382 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3386 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3387 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3388 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3389 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3390 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3391 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3395 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3398 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3399 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3401 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3402 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3403 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3404 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3405 a given package, or -i or -a.
3406 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3407 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3408 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3409 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3410 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3411 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3412 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3413 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3414 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3416 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3417 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3418 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3422 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3425 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3426 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3431 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3434 does not have a section.
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3438 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3441 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3442 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3443 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3447 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Fixed typo #16215.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3453 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3456 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3457 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3458 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3459 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3460 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3465 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3468 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3469 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3470 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3475 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3481 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3487 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3490 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3491 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3492 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3493 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3494 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3495 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3499 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3505 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3508 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3512 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3515 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3516 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3517 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3521 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3524 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3528 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3534 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3537 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3541 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3544 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3548 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3554 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3557 postinst, postrm, etc.
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3561 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3567 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3570 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3571 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3572 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3573 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3574 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3578 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3581 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3582 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3586 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3589 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3593 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3596 installing package files into.
3597 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3602 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3606 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3610 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3616 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3619 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3623 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3626 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3627 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3628 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3629 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3633 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3635 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3636 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3637 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3638 multiple binary packages.
3639 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3640 should rebuild them with this version.
3641 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3645 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3648 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3652 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3655 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3659 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3662 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3663 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3664 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3665 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3666 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3667 debian/README.debian.
3668 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3669 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3670 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3671 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3672 in a few situations.)
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3676 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3682 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3688 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3691 * Fixed several man pages.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3695 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3698 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3699 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3703 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3706 is ready for general use.
3707 * Added man pages for all commands.
3708 * Multiple binary package support.
3709 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3710 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3711 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3713 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3714 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3715 auto-installed as parameters.
3716 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3718 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3721 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3722 the package build directory it is to act on.
3723 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3724 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3725 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3729 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3731 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3732 ready to replace debstd.
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400