1 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
4 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
5 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
6 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
7 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
8 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
12 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
14 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
15 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
17 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
22 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
24 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
25 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
29 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
32 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
33 right thing. Closes: #150644
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
37 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
44 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
46 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
51 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
54 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
55 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
60 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
66 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
69 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
73 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
76 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
77 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
82 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
85 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
89 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
95 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
98 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
99 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
103 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
109 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Removing perl warning message.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
115 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
118 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
119 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
120 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
121 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
122 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
123 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
124 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
125 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
129 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
135 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
142 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
145 debconf-mergetemplate.
146 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
147 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
151 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
154 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
155 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
156 dh_install, which ...
157 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
158 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
159 mess, as it uses debian/install.
160 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
161 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
162 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
163 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
164 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
165 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
166 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
167 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
168 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
169 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
170 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
172 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
173 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
174 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
175 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
176 course there's -X ..)
177 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
178 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
179 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
181 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
182 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
183 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
184 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
185 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
190 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
196 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Typo, Closes: #139176
199 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
203 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
209 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
215 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
221 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
227 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
230 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
231 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
232 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
233 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
235 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
236 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
240 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
246 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Typo, Closes: #132454
249 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
253 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
256 upset. Closes: #131322
258 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
260 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
263 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
264 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
265 line, as well as in debian/rules.
266 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
267 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
268 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
269 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
270 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
271 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
272 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
273 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
274 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
275 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
276 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
277 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
279 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
283 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
286 - Better indenting of generated code.
287 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
291 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
295 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
296 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
297 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
298 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
299 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
300 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
301 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
305 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
308 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
312 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
315 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
316 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
317 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
318 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
319 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
320 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
321 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
322 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
323 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
324 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
325 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
326 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
327 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
328 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
329 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
334 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
340 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
343 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
344 * fixed dh_testdir man page
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
348 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Typo, Closes: #122679
351 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
352 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
356 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
362 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
365 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
366 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
367 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
368 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
369 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
374 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
376 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
380 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
383 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
387 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
390 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
395 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Typo, Closes: #114135
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
401 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
404 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
408 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
414 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
418 Also some indentation fixes.
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
422 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
425 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
426 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
427 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
428 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
429 Closes: #106514, #85520
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
433 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Typo, Closes: #104405
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
439 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
441 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
445 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
447 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
451 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
457 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
459 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
463 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
465 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
466 change it in debhelper v4..
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
470 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
476 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
479 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
483 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
486 is not essential. Closes: #100430
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
490 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
496 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
499 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
500 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
501 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
502 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
503 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
504 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
505 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
506 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
507 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
508 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
509 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
510 prefixed with ".debhelper")
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
514 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
517 look just like shared libs, but are not.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
521 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
528 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
531 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
532 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
533 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
534 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
535 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
536 program those options go to. So, for example,
537 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
538 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
539 something complex. Closes: #89311
540 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
544 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
547 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
548 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
549 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
553 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
556 through loop. Closes: #98598
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
560 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Missing semi-colon.
563 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
564 this (dh_* should be called, really).
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
568 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
571 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
572 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
573 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
577 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
580 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
581 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
585 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
588 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
592 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
595 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
596 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
600 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
602 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
603 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
604 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
605 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
609 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
612 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
613 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
614 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
618 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
621 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
625 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
631 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Typo, Closes: #92407
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
637 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
643 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
649 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
652 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
656 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
659 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
660 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
661 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
662 followed. Closes: #85483
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
666 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
668 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
669 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
670 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
674 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
677 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
678 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
679 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
680 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
681 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
682 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
683 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
684 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
685 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
686 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
687 Closes: #88464, #77743
688 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
689 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
690 us to deal with that gracefully.
691 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
693 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
694 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
695 a while, Closes: #51225
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
699 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
705 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
708 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
712 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
716 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
721 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
724 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
725 don't make packlist files.
726 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
727 debhelper coding standards.
728 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
729 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
733 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
736 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
740 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
743 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
744 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
745 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
746 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
747 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
748 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
749 but is mildly deprecated.
750 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
751 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
752 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
753 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
754 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
755 switching to statoverrides..
756 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
757 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
758 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
759 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
760 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
761 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
763 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
764 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
765 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
766 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
767 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
768 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
769 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
770 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
771 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
773 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
774 variable names, pod man pages).
775 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
776 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
777 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
778 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
779 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
780 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
781 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
785 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
791 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
798 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
801 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
805 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
807 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
808 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
809 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
813 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
815 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
816 they were previously ignored.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
820 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
822 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
823 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
827 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
829 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
830 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
831 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
835 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
837 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
841 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
843 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
844 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
848 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
850 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
851 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
852 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
853 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
854 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
855 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
856 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
857 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
858 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
859 it is an obsolete program.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
863 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
865 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
869 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
873 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
875 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
879 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
881 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
883 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
885 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
889 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
895 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
897 * typo: Closes, #78567
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
901 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
907 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
913 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
915 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
916 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
917 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
918 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
919 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
920 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
924 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
927 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
932 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
934 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
935 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
936 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
937 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
938 backwards-compatability.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
942 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
944 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
945 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
946 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
947 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
948 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
949 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
950 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
952 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
953 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
954 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
956 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
958 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
959 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
960 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
961 should now be raised to severity important..
962 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
963 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
967 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
970 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
975 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Typo, Closes: #77441
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
981 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Completed the fix from the last version.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
987 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
993 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
995 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1000 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1003 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1004 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1005 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1006 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1010 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1016 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1019 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1020 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1021 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1022 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1023 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1024 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1029 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1032 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1036 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1042 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1045 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1050 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1053 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1054 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1055 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1056 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1060 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1064 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1067 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1070 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1071 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1074 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1076 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1077 the TODO entry about it.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1081 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1088 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1091 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1092 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1096 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1099 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1100 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1101 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1102 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1106 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1112 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1119 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1122 (this appears to be logal).
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1126 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1129 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1130 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1131 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1132 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1136 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1142 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1145 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1146 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1147 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1148 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1152 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1158 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1161 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1165 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1172 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1175 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1176 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1177 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1182 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1189 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1195 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1198 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1199 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1200 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1201 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1202 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1203 notice until v2 is complete.
1204 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1205 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1206 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1207 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1208 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1209 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1211 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1212 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1213 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1214 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1218 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1224 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1231 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1234 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1238 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1245 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1248 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1249 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1250 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1251 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1256 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1259 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1260 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1261 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1266 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1269 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1270 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1274 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1277 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1281 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1284 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1295 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1298 depend on the build and install targets.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1302 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1305 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1309 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1322 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1328 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1331 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1332 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1333 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1334 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1335 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1336 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1338 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1339 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1340 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1341 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1342 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1343 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1344 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1348 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1354 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1360 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1363 right place. Closes: #55065
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1367 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1374 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1377 * Copyright date updates.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1381 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1384 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1389 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1395 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1402 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1408 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1414 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1420 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1423 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1424 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1425 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1426 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1427 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1428 bits until all files have been registered.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1432 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_installmanpages:
1435 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1436 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1437 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1438 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1439 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1440 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1441 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1442 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1443 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1444 otherwise change the result at all.
1446 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1447 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1448 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1449 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1450 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1455 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1461 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1464 act on files that don't exist.
1465 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1466 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1467 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1469 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1470 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1471 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1472 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1476 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1482 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1488 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1491 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1495 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1498 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1500 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1501 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1502 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1506 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1509 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1510 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1511 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1512 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1513 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1514 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1515 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1517 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1519 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1523 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1530 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1536 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1542 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1545 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1549 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1555 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1561 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1564 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1565 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1566 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1567 I made some changes, though:
1568 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1569 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1570 that is a clear violation of policy.
1571 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1572 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1573 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1574 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1575 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1576 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1577 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1578 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1579 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1581 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1585 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1591 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1594 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1598 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1601 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1602 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1607 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1613 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1620 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1623 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1624 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1625 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1626 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1627 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1628 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1629 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1633 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1639 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1643 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1644 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1648 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1654 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1657 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1661 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1664 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1665 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1669 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1671 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1676 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1680 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1684 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1687 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1688 for the dependancies to be generated.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1692 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1695 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1699 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1702 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1703 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1704 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1709 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1712 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1713 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1717 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1723 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1729 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1732 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1736 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1742 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1745 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1746 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1747 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1748 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1749 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1750 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1751 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1752 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1753 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1754 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1755 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1756 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1760 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1763 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1764 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1766 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1767 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1768 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1769 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1770 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1771 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1773 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1774 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1778 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1781 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1785 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1792 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1795 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1800 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1803 for building debhelper.
1804 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1808 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1818 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1822 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1825 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1826 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1827 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1828 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1829 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1830 it's always available.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1834 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1837 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1838 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1839 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1843 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1846 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1847 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1851 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1857 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1860 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1864 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1870 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1873 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1874 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1875 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1879 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1882 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1887 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1890 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1891 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1893 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1894 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1898 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1904 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1910 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1913 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1917 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1920 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1921 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1923 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1927 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1930 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1931 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1932 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1939 things if CDPATH is set.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1943 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1949 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1952 seems to make sense for the transition.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1956 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1959 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1964 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1967 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1968 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1972 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1975 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1979 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1982 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1983 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1984 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1985 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1989 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1995 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1998 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1999 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2000 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2001 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2002 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2003 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2004 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2005 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2006 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2007 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2012 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2015 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2016 * README: mention doc/v2
2017 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2018 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2022 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2024 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2025 be using this script RSN.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2029 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2032 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2033 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2034 more than 1 init script.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2038 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2041 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2045 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Changed perl version detection.
2048 * Changed call to find.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2052 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2055 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2057 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2062 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Really include dh_installpam.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2068 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2071 * Wrote man page for same.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2075 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2078 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2079 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2084 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2091 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2094 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2095 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2096 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2097 x bit was being set!
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2101 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2104 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2105 well. (Closes: 38900)
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2109 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2112 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2113 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2117 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2123 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2130 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2136 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2139 help from Julian Gilbey.
2140 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2141 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2142 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2143 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2144 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2145 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2146 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2151 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2157 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2164 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2170 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2176 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2179 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2183 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2186 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2190 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2193 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2197 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2203 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2206 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2210 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2216 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2222 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2225 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2226 may be deleted. (#35845)
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2230 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Various man page enhancements.
2233 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2238 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2241 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2242 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2246 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2249 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2250 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2251 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2253 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2254 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2259 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2265 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Another very minor typo fix.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2271 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Very minor typo fix.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2277 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2280 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2281 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2285 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2291 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2294 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2295 variables properly (#34850).
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2299 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2305 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2308 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2309 (automatically generated by build process).
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2313 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2315 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2319 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2322 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2323 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2325 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2329 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2332 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2336 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * README: minor typo fix.
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2342 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2345 leave it at that. :-)
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2349 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2355 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2361 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2364 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2365 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2366 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2370 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2373 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2377 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2380 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2384 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2387 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2388 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2389 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2390 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2394 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2397 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2398 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2399 Craig Small for spotting this.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2403 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2406 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2407 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2411 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2417 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2420 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2424 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2426 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2427 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2428 working on the last version of debhelper.
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2432 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2435 being made. (#23255)
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2439 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2445 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2448 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2452 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2455 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2456 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2457 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2458 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2462 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2465 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2466 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2467 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2468 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2470 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2471 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2473 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2478 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2484 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2490 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2493 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2494 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2495 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2496 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2497 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2498 suidregister actually supports it.
2499 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2500 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2504 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2511 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2514 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2515 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2516 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2517 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2518 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2519 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2520 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2524 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2526 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2527 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2531 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2534 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2535 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2536 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2537 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2541 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2544 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2546 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2547 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2548 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2549 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2550 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2551 effect, either. (#30118)
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2555 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2561 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2564 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2565 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2569 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2575 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2578 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2579 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2580 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2581 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2585 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2588 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2589 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2593 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2599 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2602 packages, painlessly.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2606 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2612 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2618 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2624 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * The perl conversion is complete.
2628 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2630 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2631 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2632 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2637 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2640 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2641 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2642 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2646 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2649 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2651 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2653 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2654 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2658 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2661 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2662 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2666 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2672 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2675 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2676 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2677 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2678 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2679 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2683 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2686 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2687 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2688 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2689 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2693 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2696 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2700 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2703 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2704 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2705 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2706 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2707 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2708 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2709 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2710 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2714 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2720 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2723 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2724 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2725 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2730 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2733 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2737 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2740 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2744 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2747 sections of shared libraries.
2748 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2749 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2750 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2751 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2752 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2753 things you don't want them to.
2754 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2755 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2759 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2762 shared libraries. (#26414)
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2766 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2768 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2769 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2770 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2771 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2775 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2779 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2781 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2782 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2783 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2784 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2785 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2789 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2792 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2796 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2799 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2800 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2805 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2808 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2812 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2815 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2816 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2817 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2818 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2819 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2821 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2822 remove debian/files properly.
2823 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2824 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2825 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2826 * Removed bogus menu file.
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2830 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2833 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2837 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2840 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2841 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2842 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2843 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2844 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2845 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2849 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2852 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2853 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2854 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2855 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2859 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2866 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2869 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2870 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2872 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2873 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2874 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2875 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2876 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2877 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2881 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2884 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2885 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2886 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2887 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2888 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2889 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2890 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2891 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2892 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2893 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2894 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2895 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2896 passed any switches.
2897 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2901 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2904 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2905 at all for a long while.
2906 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2907 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2908 large chunks in the process.
2909 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2910 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2911 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2916 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2919 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2921 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2926 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2929 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2930 that don't always have the same files in them.
2931 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2932 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2933 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2937 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2941 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2942 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2943 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2944 updating 27 man pages.
2945 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2946 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2947 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2948 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2949 programs act on. (#25247)
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2953 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2957 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2958 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2959 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2960 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2961 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2962 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2967 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2974 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2981 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2984 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2988 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2994 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2997 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2998 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2999 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3000 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3001 package by accident.
3002 * Is version 1.0 next?
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3006 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3009 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3010 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3014 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3017 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3018 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3019 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3020 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3021 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3023 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3028 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3031 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3032 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3036 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3039 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3043 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3046 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3047 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3052 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3058 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3061 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3062 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3067 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3073 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3076 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3077 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3078 past week. Thanks, guys!
3080 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3081 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3082 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3083 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3084 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3085 would do in the same situation.
3086 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3087 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3089 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3091 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3092 permissions changed.
3093 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3094 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3095 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3096 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3097 files are treated identically.
3098 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3099 * Minor man page fixes.
3100 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3101 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3102 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3106 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3109 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3110 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3111 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3112 use -X multiple times, too.
3113 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3114 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3118 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3121 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3122 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3126 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3129 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3133 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3136 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3137 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3138 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3139 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3140 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3141 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3142 shape if you're starting a new package.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3146 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3149 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3153 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3156 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3157 because of missing symlinks.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3161 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3167 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3170 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3171 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3172 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3173 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3174 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3176 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3177 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3181 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3183 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3184 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3185 to be changed after the fact :-)
3186 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3190 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3193 no version string after the -V.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3197 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3199 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3200 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3205 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3208 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3212 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3215 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3216 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3217 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3218 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3219 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3220 I always welcome corrections!
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3224 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3230 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3233 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3234 * Documented this new switch.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3238 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3241 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3242 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3243 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3244 no packages use the old behavior.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3248 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3251 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3252 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3256 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3259 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3263 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3269 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3272 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3276 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3279 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3280 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3281 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3285 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3291 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3294 into the source package by accident.
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3298 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3301 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3302 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3303 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3304 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3305 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3306 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3311 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3315 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3316 inspired to implement some of it.
3317 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3321 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3324 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3328 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3331 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3332 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3336 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3339 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3340 have done.) (#17598)
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3344 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3350 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3356 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3359 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3363 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3366 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3367 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3371 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3374 argument processor in perl.
3375 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3376 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3377 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3378 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3382 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3385 type directories. (#16933)
3386 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3387 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3388 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3389 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3390 are supported. (#16935)
3391 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3396 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3399 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3403 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3407 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3408 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3409 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3410 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3411 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3412 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3416 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3419 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3420 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3422 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3423 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3424 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3425 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3426 a given package, or -i or -a.
3427 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3428 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3429 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3430 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3431 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3432 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3433 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3434 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3435 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3437 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3438 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3439 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3443 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3446 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3447 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3452 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3455 does not have a section.
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3459 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3462 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3463 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3464 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3468 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * Fixed typo #16215.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3474 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3477 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3478 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3479 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3480 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3481 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3486 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3489 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3490 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3491 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3496 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3502 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3508 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3511 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3512 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3513 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3514 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3515 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3516 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3520 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3526 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3529 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3533 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3536 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3537 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3538 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3542 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3545 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3549 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3555 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3558 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3562 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3565 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3569 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3575 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3578 postinst, postrm, etc.
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3582 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3588 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3591 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3592 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3593 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3594 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3595 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3599 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3602 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3603 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3607 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3610 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3614 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3617 installing package files into.
3618 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3623 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3627 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3631 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3637 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3640 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3644 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3647 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3648 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3649 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3650 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3654 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3656 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3657 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3658 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3659 multiple binary packages.
3660 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3661 should rebuild them with this version.
3662 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3666 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3669 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3673 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3676 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3680 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3683 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3684 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3685 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3686 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3687 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3688 debian/README.debian.
3689 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3690 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3691 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3692 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3693 in a few situations.)
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3697 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3703 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3709 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3712 * Fixed several man pages.
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3716 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3719 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3720 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3724 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3727 is ready for general use.
3728 * Added man pages for all commands.
3729 * Multiple binary package support.
3730 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3731 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3732 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3734 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3735 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3736 auto-installed as parameters.
3737 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3739 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3742 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3743 the package build directory it is to act on.
3744 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3745 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3746 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3750 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3752 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3753 ready to replace debstd.
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400