1 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
4 * Typo, Closes: #183267
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
8 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
11 * Update debhelper(1).
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
15 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
17 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
18 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
19 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
20 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
21 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
22 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
26 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
29 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
30 the shell. Closes: #178524
31 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
35 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
38 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
42 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
45 undocumented.7 links anymore.
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
49 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
51 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
52 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
53 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
54 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
55 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
60 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
63 files from installation.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
67 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
70 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
71 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
75 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
78 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
82 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
85 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
89 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
95 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
101 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
105 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
106 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
108 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
112 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
115 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
116 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
117 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
118 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
122 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
124 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
125 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
129 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
132 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
133 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
137 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
141 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
146 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
152 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
156 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
157 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
158 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
163 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
166 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
167 practice. Closes: #163303
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
171 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
177 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
184 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
186 * The "reverse hangover" release.
187 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
189 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
190 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
191 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
192 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
193 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
197 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
200 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
205 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
211 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
218 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
221 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
226 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
232 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
238 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
244 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
251 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
254 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
255 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
256 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
257 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
262 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Typo, Closes: #155323
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
268 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
275 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
278 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
279 * Removed dh_installxaw.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
283 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
286 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
287 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
288 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
289 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
290 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
294 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
297 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
299 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
304 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
306 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
307 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
311 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
314 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
315 right thing. Closes: #150644
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
319 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
326 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
328 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
333 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
336 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
337 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
342 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
348 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
351 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
355 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
358 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
359 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
364 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
366 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
367 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
371 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
373 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
377 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
380 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
381 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
385 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
391 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Removing perl warning message.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
397 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
400 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
401 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
402 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
403 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
404 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
405 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
406 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
407 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
411 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
417 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
424 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
427 debconf-mergetemplate.
428 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
429 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
433 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
436 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
437 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
438 dh_install, which ...
439 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
440 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
441 mess, as it uses debian/install.
442 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
443 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
444 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
445 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
446 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
447 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
448 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
449 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
450 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
451 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
452 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
454 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
455 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
456 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
457 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
458 course there's -X ..)
459 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
460 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
461 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
463 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
464 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
465 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
466 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
467 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
472 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
478 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Typo, Closes: #139176
481 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
485 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
491 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
497 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
503 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
509 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
511 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
512 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
513 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
514 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
515 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
517 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
518 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
522 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
528 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Typo, Closes: #132454
531 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
535 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
538 upset. Closes: #131322
540 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
542 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
545 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
546 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
547 line, as well as in debian/rules.
548 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
549 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
550 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
551 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
552 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
553 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
554 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
555 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
556 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
557 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
558 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
559 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
561 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
565 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
568 - Better indenting of generated code.
569 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
573 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
575 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
577 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
578 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
579 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
580 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
581 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
582 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
583 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
587 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
590 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
594 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
596 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
597 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
598 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
599 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
600 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
601 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
602 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
603 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
604 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
605 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
606 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
607 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
608 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
609 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
610 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
611 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
616 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
622 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
625 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
626 * fixed dh_testdir man page
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
630 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Typo, Closes: #122679
633 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
634 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
638 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
644 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
647 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
648 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
649 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
650 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
651 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
656 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
658 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
662 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
665 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
669 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
672 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
677 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Typo, Closes: #114135
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
683 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
686 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
690 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
696 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
700 Also some indentation fixes.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
704 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
707 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
708 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
709 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
710 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
711 Closes: #106514, #85520
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
715 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Typo, Closes: #104405
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
721 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
727 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
729 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
733 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
739 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
745 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
748 change it in debhelper v4..
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
752 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
758 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
761 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
765 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
768 is not essential. Closes: #100430
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
772 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
778 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
781 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
782 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
783 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
784 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
785 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
786 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
787 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
788 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
789 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
790 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
791 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
792 prefixed with ".debhelper")
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
796 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
799 look just like shared libs, but are not.
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
803 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
810 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
813 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
814 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
815 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
816 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
817 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
818 program those options go to. So, for example,
819 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
820 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
821 something complex. Closes: #89311
822 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
826 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
829 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
830 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
831 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
835 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
838 through loop. Closes: #98598
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
842 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
844 * Missing semi-colon.
845 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
846 this (dh_* should be called, really).
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
850 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
853 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
854 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
855 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
859 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
862 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
863 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
867 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
870 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
874 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
877 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
878 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
882 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
885 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
886 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
887 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
891 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
894 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
895 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
896 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
900 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
903 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
907 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
913 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Typo, Closes: #92407
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
919 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
925 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
931 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
934 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
938 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
941 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
942 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
943 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
944 followed. Closes: #85483
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
948 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
950 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
951 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
952 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
956 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
959 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
960 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
961 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
962 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
963 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
964 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
965 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
966 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
967 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
968 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
969 Closes: #88464, #77743
970 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
971 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
972 us to deal with that gracefully.
973 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
975 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
976 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
977 a while, Closes: #51225
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
981 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
987 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
990 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
994 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
998 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1003 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1006 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1007 don't make packlist files.
1008 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1009 debhelper coding standards.
1010 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1011 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1015 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1018 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1022 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1025 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1026 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1027 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1028 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1029 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1030 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1031 but is mildly deprecated.
1032 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1033 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1034 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1035 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1036 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1037 switching to statoverrides..
1038 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1039 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1040 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1041 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1042 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1043 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1045 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1046 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1047 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1048 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1049 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1050 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1051 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1052 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1053 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1055 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1056 variable names, pod man pages).
1057 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1058 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1059 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1060 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1061 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1062 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1063 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1067 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1073 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1080 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1083 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1087 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1089 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1090 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1091 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1095 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1097 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1098 they were previously ignored.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1102 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1104 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1105 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1109 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1111 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1112 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1113 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1117 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1119 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1123 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1125 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1126 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1130 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1132 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1133 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1134 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1135 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1136 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1137 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1138 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1139 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1140 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1141 it is an obsolete program.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1145 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1147 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1151 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1155 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1157 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1161 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1163 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1165 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1167 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1171 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1177 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * typo: Closes, #78567
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1183 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1189 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1195 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1198 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1199 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1200 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1201 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1202 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1206 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1209 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1214 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1217 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1218 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1219 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1220 backwards-compatability.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1224 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1227 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1228 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1229 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1230 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1231 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1232 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1234 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1235 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1236 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1238 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1240 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1241 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1242 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1243 should now be raised to severity important..
1244 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1245 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1249 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1252 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1257 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1263 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1269 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1275 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1282 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1285 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1286 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1287 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1288 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1292 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1298 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1301 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1302 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1303 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1304 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1305 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1306 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1311 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1314 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1318 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1324 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1327 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1332 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1335 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1336 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1337 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1338 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1342 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1346 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1349 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1352 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1353 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1356 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1358 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1359 the TODO entry about it.
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1363 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1370 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1373 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1374 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1378 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1381 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1382 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1383 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1384 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1388 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1394 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1401 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1404 (this appears to be logal).
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1408 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1411 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1412 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1413 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1414 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1418 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1424 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1427 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1428 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1429 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1430 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1434 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1440 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1443 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1447 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1454 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1457 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1458 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1459 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1464 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1471 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1477 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1480 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1481 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1482 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1483 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1484 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1485 notice until v2 is complete.
1486 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1487 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1488 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1489 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1490 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1491 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1493 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1494 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1495 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1496 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1500 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1506 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1513 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1516 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1520 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1527 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1530 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1531 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1532 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1533 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1538 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1541 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1542 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1543 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1548 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1551 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1552 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1556 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1559 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1563 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1566 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1570 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1577 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1580 depend on the build and install targets.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1584 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1587 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1591 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1598 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1604 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1610 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1613 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1614 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1615 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1616 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1617 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1618 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1620 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1621 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1622 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1623 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1624 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1625 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1626 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1630 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1636 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1642 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1645 right place. Closes: #55065
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1649 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1656 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1659 * Copyright date updates.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1663 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1666 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1671 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1677 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1684 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1690 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1696 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1702 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1705 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1706 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1707 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1708 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1709 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1710 bits until all files have been registered.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1714 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_installmanpages:
1717 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1718 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1719 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1720 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1721 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1722 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1723 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1724 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1725 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1726 otherwise change the result at all.
1728 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1729 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1730 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1731 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1732 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1737 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1743 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1746 act on files that don't exist.
1747 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1748 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1749 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1751 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1752 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1753 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1754 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1758 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1764 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1770 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1773 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1777 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1780 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1782 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1783 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1784 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1788 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1791 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1792 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1793 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1794 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1795 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1796 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1797 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1799 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1801 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1805 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1812 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1818 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1824 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1827 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1831 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1837 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1843 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1846 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1847 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1848 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1849 I made some changes, though:
1850 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1851 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1852 that is a clear violation of policy.
1853 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1854 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1855 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1856 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1857 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1858 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1859 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1860 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1861 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1863 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1867 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1873 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1876 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1880 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1883 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1884 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1889 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1895 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1902 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1905 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1906 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1907 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1908 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1909 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1910 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1911 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1915 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1921 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1925 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1926 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1930 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1939 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1943 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1946 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1947 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1951 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1953 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1958 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1962 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1966 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1969 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1970 for the dependancies to be generated.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1974 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1977 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1981 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1984 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1985 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1986 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1991 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1994 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1995 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1999 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2005 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2011 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2014 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2018 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2024 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2027 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2028 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2029 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2030 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2031 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2032 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2033 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2034 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2035 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2036 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2037 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2038 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2042 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2045 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2046 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2048 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2049 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2050 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2051 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2052 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2053 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2055 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2056 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2060 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2063 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2067 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2074 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2077 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2082 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2085 for building debhelper.
2086 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2090 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2097 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2100 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2104 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2107 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2108 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2109 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2110 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2111 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2112 it's always available.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2116 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2119 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2120 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2121 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2125 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2128 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2129 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2133 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2139 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2142 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2146 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2152 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2155 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2156 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2157 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2161 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2164 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2169 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2172 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2173 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2175 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2176 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2180 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2186 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2192 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2195 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2199 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2202 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2203 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2205 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2209 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2212 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2213 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2214 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2218 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2221 things if CDPATH is set.
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2225 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2231 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2234 seems to make sense for the transition.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2238 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2241 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2246 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2249 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2250 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2254 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2257 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2261 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2264 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2265 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2266 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2267 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2271 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2277 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2280 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2281 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2282 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2283 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2284 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2285 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2286 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2287 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2288 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2289 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2294 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2297 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2298 * README: mention doc/v2
2299 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2300 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2304 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2306 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2307 be using this script RSN.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2311 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2314 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2315 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2316 more than 1 init script.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2320 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2323 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2327 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Changed perl version detection.
2330 * Changed call to find.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2334 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2337 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2339 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2344 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Really include dh_installpam.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2350 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2353 * Wrote man page for same.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2357 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2360 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2361 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2366 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2373 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2376 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2377 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2378 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2379 x bit was being set!
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2383 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2386 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2387 well. (Closes: 38900)
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2391 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2394 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2395 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2399 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2405 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2412 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2418 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2421 help from Julian Gilbey.
2422 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2423 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2424 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2425 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2426 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2427 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2428 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2433 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2439 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2446 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2452 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2458 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2461 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2465 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2468 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2472 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2475 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2479 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2485 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2488 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2492 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2498 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2504 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2507 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2508 may be deleted. (#35845)
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2512 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Various man page enhancements.
2515 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2520 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2523 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2524 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2528 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2531 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2532 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2533 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2535 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2536 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2541 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2547 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Another very minor typo fix.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2553 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * Very minor typo fix.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2559 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2562 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2563 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2567 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2573 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2576 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2577 variables properly (#34850).
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2581 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2587 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2590 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2591 (automatically generated by build process).
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2595 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2597 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2601 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2604 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2605 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2607 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2611 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2614 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2618 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * README: minor typo fix.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2624 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2627 leave it at that. :-)
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2631 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2637 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2643 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2646 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2647 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2648 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2652 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2655 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2659 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2662 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2666 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2669 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2670 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2671 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2672 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2676 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2679 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2680 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2681 Craig Small for spotting this.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2685 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2688 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2689 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2693 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2699 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2702 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2706 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2708 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2709 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2710 working on the last version of debhelper.
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2714 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2717 being made. (#23255)
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2721 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2727 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2730 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2734 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2737 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2738 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2739 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2740 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2744 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2747 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2748 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2749 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2750 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2752 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2753 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2755 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2760 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2766 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2772 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2775 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2776 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2777 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2778 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2779 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2780 suidregister actually supports it.
2781 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2782 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2786 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2793 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2796 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2797 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2798 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2799 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2800 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2801 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2802 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2806 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2808 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2809 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2813 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2816 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2817 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2818 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2819 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2823 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2826 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2828 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2829 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2830 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2831 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2832 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2833 effect, either. (#30118)
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2837 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2843 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2846 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2847 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2851 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2857 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2860 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2861 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2862 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2863 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2867 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2870 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2871 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2875 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2881 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2884 packages, painlessly.
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2888 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2894 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2900 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2906 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * The perl conversion is complete.
2910 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2912 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2913 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2914 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2919 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2922 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2923 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2924 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2928 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2931 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2933 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2935 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2936 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2940 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2943 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2944 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2948 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2954 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2957 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2958 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2959 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2960 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2961 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2965 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2968 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2969 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2970 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2971 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2975 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2978 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2982 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2985 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2986 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2987 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2988 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2989 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2990 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2991 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2992 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2996 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3002 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3005 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3006 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3007 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3012 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3015 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3019 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3022 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3026 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3029 sections of shared libraries.
3030 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3031 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3032 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3033 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3034 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3035 things you don't want them to.
3036 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3037 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3041 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3044 shared libraries. (#26414)
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3048 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3050 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3051 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3052 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3053 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3057 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3061 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3063 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3064 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3065 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3066 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3067 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3071 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3074 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3078 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3081 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3082 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3087 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3090 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3094 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3097 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3098 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3099 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3100 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3101 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3103 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3104 remove debian/files properly.
3105 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3106 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3107 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3108 * Removed bogus menu file.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3112 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3115 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3119 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3122 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3123 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3124 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3125 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3126 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3127 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3131 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3134 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3135 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3136 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3137 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3141 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3148 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3151 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3152 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3154 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3155 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3156 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3157 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3158 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3159 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3163 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3166 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3167 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3168 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3169 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3170 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3171 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3172 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3173 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3174 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3175 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3176 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3177 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3178 passed any switches.
3179 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3183 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3186 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3187 at all for a long while.
3188 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3189 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3190 large chunks in the process.
3191 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3192 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3193 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3198 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3201 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3203 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3208 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3211 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3212 that don't always have the same files in them.
3213 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3214 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3215 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3219 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3223 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3224 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3225 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3226 updating 27 man pages.
3227 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3228 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3229 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3230 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3231 programs act on. (#25247)
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3235 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3239 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3240 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3241 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3242 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3243 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3244 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3249 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3256 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3263 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3266 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3270 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3276 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3279 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3280 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3281 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3282 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3283 package by accident.
3284 * Is version 1.0 next?
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3288 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3291 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3292 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3296 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3299 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3300 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3301 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3302 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3303 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3305 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3310 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3313 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3314 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3318 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3321 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3325 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3328 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3329 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3334 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3340 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3343 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3344 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3349 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3355 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3358 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3359 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3360 past week. Thanks, guys!
3362 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3363 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3364 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3365 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3366 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3367 would do in the same situation.
3368 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3369 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3371 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3373 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3374 permissions changed.
3375 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3376 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3377 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3378 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3379 files are treated identically.
3380 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3381 * Minor man page fixes.
3382 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3383 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3384 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3388 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3391 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3392 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3393 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3394 use -X multiple times, too.
3395 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3396 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3400 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3403 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3404 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3408 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3411 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3415 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3418 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3419 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3420 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3421 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3422 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3423 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3424 shape if you're starting a new package.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3428 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3431 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3435 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3438 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3439 because of missing symlinks.
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3443 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3449 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3452 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3453 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3454 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3455 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3456 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3458 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3459 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3463 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3465 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3466 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3467 to be changed after the fact :-)
3468 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3472 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3474 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3475 no version string after the -V.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3479 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3481 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3482 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3487 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3490 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3494 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3497 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3498 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3499 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3500 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3501 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3502 I always welcome corrections!
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3506 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3512 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3515 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3516 * Documented this new switch.
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3520 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3523 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3524 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3525 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3526 no packages use the old behavior.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3530 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3533 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3534 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3538 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3541 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3545 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3551 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3554 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3558 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3561 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3562 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3563 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3567 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3573 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3576 into the source package by accident.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3580 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3583 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3584 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3585 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3586 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3587 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3588 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3593 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3597 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3598 inspired to implement some of it.
3599 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3603 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3606 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3610 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3613 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3614 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3618 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3621 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3622 have done.) (#17598)
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3626 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3632 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3638 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3641 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3645 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3648 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3649 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3653 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3656 argument processor in perl.
3657 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3658 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3659 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3660 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3664 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3667 type directories. (#16933)
3668 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3669 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3670 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3671 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3672 are supported. (#16935)
3673 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3678 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3681 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3685 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3689 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3690 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3691 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3692 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3693 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3694 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3698 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3701 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3702 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3704 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3705 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3706 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3707 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3708 a given package, or -i or -a.
3709 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3710 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3711 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3712 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3713 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3714 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3715 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3716 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3717 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3719 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3720 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3721 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3725 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3728 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3729 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3734 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3737 does not have a section.
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3741 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3744 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3745 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3746 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3750 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * Fixed typo #16215.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3756 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3759 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3760 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3761 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3762 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3763 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3768 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3771 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3772 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3773 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3778 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3784 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3790 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3793 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3794 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3795 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3796 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3797 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3798 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3802 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3808 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3811 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3815 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3818 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3819 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3820 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3824 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3827 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3831 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3837 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3840 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3844 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3847 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3851 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3857 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3860 postinst, postrm, etc.
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3864 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3870 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3873 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3874 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3875 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3876 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3877 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3881 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3884 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3885 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3889 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3892 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3896 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3899 installing package files into.
3900 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3905 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3909 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3913 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3919 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3922 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3926 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3929 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3930 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3931 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3932 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3936 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3938 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3939 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3940 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3941 multiple binary packages.
3942 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3943 should rebuild them with this version.
3944 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3948 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3951 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3955 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3958 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3962 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3965 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3966 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3967 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3968 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3969 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3970 debian/README.debian.
3971 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3972 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3973 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3974 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3975 in a few situations.)
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3979 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3985 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3991 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3994 * Fixed several man pages.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3998 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4001 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4002 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4006 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4009 is ready for general use.
4010 * Added man pages for all commands.
4011 * Multiple binary package support.
4012 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4013 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4014 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4016 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4017 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4018 auto-installed as parameters.
4019 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4021 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4024 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4025 the package build directory it is to act on.
4026 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4027 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4028 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4032 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4034 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4035 ready to replace debstd.
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400