1 debhelper (4.2.35) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
4 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
8 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
10 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
11 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
15 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
18 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
19 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
20 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
21 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
22 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
23 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
27 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
30 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
31 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
32 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
37 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
40 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
41 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
46 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
49 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
50 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
51 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
56 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
59 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
60 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
61 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
65 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
71 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
78 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
81 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
82 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
83 unknown. Closes: #282924
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
87 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
94 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Spanish man page updates.
97 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
102 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
108 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
111 * dh_desktop: reindent
112 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
113 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
117 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
123 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
125 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
129 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
131 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
135 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367a
138 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378a
139 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
143 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
149 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
155 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
162 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
165 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
169 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
172 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
173 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
174 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
175 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
176 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
177 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
179 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
180 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
181 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
182 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
183 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
184 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
185 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
186 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
187 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
188 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
189 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
190 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
191 in the others, and added a few new tests.
192 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
193 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
194 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
198 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
200 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
205 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
208 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
212 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
215 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
219 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
222 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
226 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
229 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
233 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
235 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
239 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
245 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
251 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
254 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
255 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
256 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
260 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
263 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
267 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
270 but occasionally right and necessary.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
274 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
277 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
278 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
279 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
280 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
281 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937a
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
285 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
287 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
288 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
290 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
291 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
292 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
293 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
294 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
295 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
296 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
297 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
298 postinst scripts for udebs.
299 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
303 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
306 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
308 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
309 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
313 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
319 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
326 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
333 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
336 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
340 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
343 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
347 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
350 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
353 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
354 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
358 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
364 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
367 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
371 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
373 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
374 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
375 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
376 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
378 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
380 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
381 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
382 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
386 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
389 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
394 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
397 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
398 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
399 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
404 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
410 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
416 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
419 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
420 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
421 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
422 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
423 associated -dbg packages.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
427 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
430 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
434 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
437 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
441 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
444 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
448 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
451 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
456 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Typo. Closes: #207999
459 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
463 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
465 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
466 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
471 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
474 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
478 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
482 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
483 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
484 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
485 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
486 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
487 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
488 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
489 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
490 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
491 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
495 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
498 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
503 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
506 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
507 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
511 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
514 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
515 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
520 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
523 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
527 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
530 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
534 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
537 out section number. Closes: #204731
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
541 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
548 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
554 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
560 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Typo, Closes: #203907
563 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
564 removal. Closes: #204286
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
568 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
571 renaming. Closes: #203548
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
575 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
578 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
579 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
583 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
589 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
595 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
601 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
604 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
605 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
606 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
610 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
613 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
614 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
618 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
624 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
631 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
634 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
639 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
642 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
646 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
649 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
651 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
652 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
656 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
659 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
664 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
667 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
671 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
677 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
679 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
683 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
686 it break hard links (see #188663).
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
690 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
693 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
697 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
703 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
707 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
708 debconf-mergetemplates
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
712 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
715 pod2man. Closes: #184013
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
719 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
722 * Typo, Closes: #183267
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
726 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
729 * Update debhelper(1).
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
733 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
735 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
736 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
737 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
738 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
739 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
740 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
744 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
747 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
748 the shell. Closes: #178524
749 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
753 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
756 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
760 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
763 undocumented.7 links anymore.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
767 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
769 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
770 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
771 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
772 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
773 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
778 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
781 files from installation.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
785 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
788 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
789 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
793 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
796 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
800 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
803 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
807 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
813 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
819 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
823 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
824 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
826 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
830 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
833 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
834 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
835 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
836 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
840 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
842 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
843 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
847 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
850 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
851 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
855 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
859 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
864 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
870 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
874 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
875 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
876 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
881 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
884 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
885 practice. Closes: #163303
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
889 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
895 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
902 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
904 * The "reverse hangover" release.
905 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
907 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
908 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
909 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
910 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
911 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
915 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
918 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
923 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
929 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
936 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
939 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
944 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
950 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
956 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
962 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
969 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
972 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
973 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
974 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
975 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
980 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Typo, Closes: #155323
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
986 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
993 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
996 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
997 * Removed dh_installxaw.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1001 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1004 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1005 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1006 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1007 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1008 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1012 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1015 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1017 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1022 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1025 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1029 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1032 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1033 right thing. Closes: #150644
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1037 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Stupid, evil typo.
1040 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1044 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1051 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1054 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1055 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1060 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1066 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1069 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1073 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1076 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1077 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1082 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1085 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1089 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1095 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1098 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1099 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1103 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1109 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Removing perl warning message.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1115 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1118 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1119 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1120 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1121 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1122 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1123 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1124 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1125 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1129 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1135 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1142 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1145 debconf-mergetemplate.
1146 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1147 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1151 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1154 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1155 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1156 dh_install, which ...
1157 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1158 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1159 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1160 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1161 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1162 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1163 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1164 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1165 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1166 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1167 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1168 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1169 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1170 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1171 other minor changes.
1172 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1173 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1174 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1175 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1176 course there's -X ..)
1177 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1178 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1179 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1181 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1182 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1183 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1184 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1185 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1190 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1196 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1199 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1203 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1209 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1215 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1221 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1227 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1230 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1231 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1232 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1233 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1235 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1236 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1240 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1246 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1249 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1253 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1256 upset. Closes: #131322
1258 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1260 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1263 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1264 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1265 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1266 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1267 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1268 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1269 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1270 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1271 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1272 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1273 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1274 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1275 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1276 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1277 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1279 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1283 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1286 - Better indenting of generated code.
1287 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1291 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1295 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1296 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1297 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1298 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1299 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1300 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1301 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1305 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1308 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1312 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1315 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1316 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1317 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1318 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1319 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1320 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1321 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1322 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1323 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1324 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1325 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1326 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1327 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1328 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1329 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1334 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1340 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1343 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1344 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1348 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1351 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1352 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1356 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1362 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1365 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1366 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1367 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1368 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1369 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1374 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1380 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1383 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1387 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1390 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1395 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1401 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1404 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1408 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1414 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1418 Also some indentation fixes.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1422 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1425 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1426 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1427 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1428 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1429 Closes: #106514, #85520
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1433 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1439 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1445 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1451 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1457 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1463 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1466 change it in debhelper v4..
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1470 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1476 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1479 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1483 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1486 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1490 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1496 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1499 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1500 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1501 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1502 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1503 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1504 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1505 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1506 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1507 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1508 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1509 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1510 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1514 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1517 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1521 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1528 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1531 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1532 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1533 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1534 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1535 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1536 program those options go to. So, for example,
1537 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1538 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1539 something complex. Closes: #89311
1540 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1544 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1547 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1548 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1549 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1553 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1556 through loop. Closes: #98598
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1560 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Missing semi-colon.
1563 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1564 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1568 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1571 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1572 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1573 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1577 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1580 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1581 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1585 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1588 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1592 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1595 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1596 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1600 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1603 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1604 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1605 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1609 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1612 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1613 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1614 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1618 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1621 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1625 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1631 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1637 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1643 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1649 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1652 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1656 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1659 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1660 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1661 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1662 followed. Closes: #85483
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1666 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1668 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1669 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1670 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1674 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1677 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1678 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1679 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1680 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1681 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1682 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1683 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1684 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1685 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1686 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1687 Closes: #88464, #77743
1688 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1689 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1690 us to deal with that gracefully.
1691 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1693 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1694 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1695 a while, Closes: #51225
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1699 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1705 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1708 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1712 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1716 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1721 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1724 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1725 don't make packlist files.
1726 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1727 debhelper coding standards.
1728 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1729 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1733 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1736 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1740 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1743 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1744 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1745 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1746 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1747 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1748 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1749 but is mildly deprecated.
1750 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1751 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1752 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1753 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1754 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1755 switching to statoverrides..
1756 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1757 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1758 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1759 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1760 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1761 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1763 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1764 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1765 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1766 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1767 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1768 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1769 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1770 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1771 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1773 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1774 variable names, pod man pages).
1775 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1776 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1777 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1778 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1779 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1780 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1781 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1785 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1791 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1798 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1801 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1805 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1807 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1808 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1809 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1813 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1815 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1816 they were previously ignored.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1820 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1822 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1823 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1827 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1829 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1830 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1831 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1835 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1837 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1841 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1843 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1844 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1848 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1850 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1851 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1852 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1853 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1854 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1855 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1856 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1857 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1858 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1859 it is an obsolete program.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1863 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1865 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1869 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1873 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1875 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1879 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1881 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1883 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1885 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1889 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1895 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * typo: Closes, #78567
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1901 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1907 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1913 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1916 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1917 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1918 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1919 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1920 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1924 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1927 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1932 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1935 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1936 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1937 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1938 backwards-compatability.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1942 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1945 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1946 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1947 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1948 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1949 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1950 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1952 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1953 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1954 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1956 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1958 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1959 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1960 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1961 should now be raised to severity important..
1962 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1963 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1967 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1970 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1975 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1981 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1987 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1993 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2000 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2003 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2004 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2005 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2006 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2010 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2016 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2019 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2020 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2021 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2022 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2023 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2024 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2029 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2032 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2036 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2042 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2045 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2050 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2053 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2054 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2055 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2056 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2060 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2064 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2067 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2070 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2071 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2074 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2076 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2077 the TODO entry about it.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2081 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2088 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2091 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2092 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2096 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2099 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2100 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2101 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2102 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2106 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2112 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2119 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2122 (this appears to be logal).
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2126 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2129 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2130 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2131 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2132 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2136 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2142 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2145 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2146 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2147 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2148 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2152 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2158 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2161 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2165 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2172 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2175 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2176 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2177 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2182 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2189 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2195 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2198 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2199 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2200 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2201 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2202 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2203 notice until v2 is complete.
2204 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2205 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2206 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2207 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2208 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2209 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2211 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2212 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2213 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2214 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2218 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2224 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2231 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2234 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2238 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2245 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2248 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2249 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2250 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2251 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2256 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2259 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2260 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2261 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2266 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2269 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2270 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2274 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2277 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2281 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2284 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2288 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2295 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2298 depend on the build and install targets.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2302 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2305 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2309 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2316 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2322 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2328 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2331 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2332 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2333 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2334 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2335 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2336 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2338 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2339 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2340 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2341 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2342 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2343 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2344 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2348 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2354 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2360 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2363 right place. Closes: #55065
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2367 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2374 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2377 * Copyright date updates.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2381 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2384 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2389 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2395 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2402 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2408 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2414 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2420 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2423 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2424 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2425 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2426 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2427 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2428 bits until all files have been registered.
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2432 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_installmanpages:
2435 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2436 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2437 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2438 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2439 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2440 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2441 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2442 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2443 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2444 otherwise change the result at all.
2446 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2447 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2448 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2449 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2450 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2455 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2461 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2464 act on files that don't exist.
2465 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2466 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2467 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2469 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2470 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2471 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2472 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2476 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2482 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2488 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2491 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2495 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2498 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2500 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2501 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2502 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2506 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2509 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2510 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2511 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2512 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2513 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2514 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2515 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2517 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2519 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2523 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2530 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2536 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2542 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2545 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2549 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2555 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2561 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2564 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2565 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2566 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2567 I made some changes, though:
2568 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2569 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2570 that is a clear violation of policy.
2571 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2572 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2573 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2574 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2575 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2576 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2577 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2578 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2579 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2581 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2585 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2591 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2594 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2598 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2601 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2602 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2607 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2613 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2620 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2623 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2624 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2625 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2626 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2627 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2628 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2629 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2633 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2639 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2643 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2644 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2648 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2654 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2657 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2661 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2664 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2665 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2669 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2671 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2676 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2680 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2684 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2687 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2688 for the dependancies to be generated.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2692 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2695 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2699 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2702 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2703 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2704 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2709 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2712 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2713 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2717 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2723 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2729 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2732 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2736 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2742 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2745 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2746 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2747 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2748 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2749 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2750 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2751 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2752 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2753 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2754 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2755 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2756 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2760 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2763 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2764 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2766 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2767 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2768 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2769 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2770 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2771 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2773 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2774 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2778 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2781 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2785 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2792 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2795 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2800 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2803 for building debhelper.
2804 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2808 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2815 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2818 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2822 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2825 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2826 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2827 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2828 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2829 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2830 it's always available.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2834 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2837 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2838 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2839 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2843 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2846 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2847 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2851 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2857 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2860 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2864 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2870 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2873 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2874 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2875 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2879 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2882 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2887 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2890 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2891 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2893 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2894 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2898 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2904 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2910 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2913 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2917 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2920 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2921 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2923 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2927 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2930 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2931 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2932 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2936 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2939 things if CDPATH is set.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2943 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2949 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2952 seems to make sense for the transition.
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2956 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2959 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2964 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2967 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2968 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2972 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2975 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2979 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2982 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2983 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2984 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2985 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2989 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2995 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2998 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2999 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3000 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3001 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3002 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3003 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3004 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3005 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3006 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3007 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3012 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3015 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3016 * README: mention doc/v2
3017 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3018 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3022 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3024 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3025 be using this script RSN.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3029 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3032 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3033 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3034 more than 1 init script.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3038 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3041 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3045 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Changed perl version detection.
3048 * Changed call to find.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3052 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3055 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3057 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3062 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Really include dh_installpam.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3068 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3071 * Wrote man page for same.
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3075 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3078 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3079 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3084 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3091 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3094 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3095 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3096 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3097 x bit was being set!
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3101 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3104 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3105 well. (Closes: 38900)
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3109 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3112 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3113 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3117 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3123 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3130 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3136 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3139 help from Julian Gilbey.
3140 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3141 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3142 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3143 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3144 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3145 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3146 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3151 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3157 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3164 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3170 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3176 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3179 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3183 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3186 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3190 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3193 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3197 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3203 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3206 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3210 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3216 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3222 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3225 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3226 may be deleted. (#35845)
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3230 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Various man page enhancements.
3233 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3238 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3241 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3242 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3246 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3249 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3250 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3251 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3253 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3254 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3259 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3265 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Another very minor typo fix.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3271 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Very minor typo fix.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3277 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3280 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3281 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3285 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3291 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3294 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3295 variables properly (#34850).
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3299 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3305 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3308 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3309 (automatically generated by build process).
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3313 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3315 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3319 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3322 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3323 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3325 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3329 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3332 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3336 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * README: minor typo fix.
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3342 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3345 leave it at that. :-)
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3349 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3355 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3361 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3364 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3365 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3366 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3370 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3373 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3377 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3380 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3384 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3387 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3388 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3389 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3390 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3394 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3397 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3398 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3399 Craig Small for spotting this.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3403 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3406 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3407 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3411 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3417 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3420 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3424 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3426 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3427 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3428 working on the last version of debhelper.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3432 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3435 being made. (#23255)
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3439 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3445 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3448 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3452 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3455 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3456 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3457 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3458 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3462 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3465 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3466 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3467 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3468 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3470 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3471 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3473 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3478 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3484 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3490 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3493 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3494 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3495 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3496 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3497 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3498 suidregister actually supports it.
3499 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3500 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3504 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3511 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3514 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3515 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3516 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3517 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3518 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3519 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3520 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3524 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3526 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3527 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3531 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3534 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3535 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3536 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3537 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3541 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3544 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3546 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3547 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3548 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3549 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3550 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3551 effect, either. (#30118)
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3555 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3561 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3564 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3565 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3569 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3575 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3578 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3579 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3580 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3581 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3585 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3588 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3589 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3593 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3599 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3602 packages, painlessly.
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3606 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3612 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3618 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3624 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * The perl conversion is complete.
3628 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3630 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3631 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3632 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3637 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3640 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3641 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3642 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3646 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3649 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3651 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3653 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3654 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3658 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3661 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3662 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3666 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3672 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3675 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3676 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3677 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3678 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3679 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3683 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3686 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3687 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3688 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3689 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3693 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3696 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3700 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3703 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3704 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3705 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3706 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3707 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3708 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3709 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3710 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3714 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3720 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3723 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3724 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3725 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3730 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3733 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3737 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3740 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3744 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3747 sections of shared libraries.
3748 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3749 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3750 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3751 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3752 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3753 things you don't want them to.
3754 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3755 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3759 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3762 shared libraries. (#26414)
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3766 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3768 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3769 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3770 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3771 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3775 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3779 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3781 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3782 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3783 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3784 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3785 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3789 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3792 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3796 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3799 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3800 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3805 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3808 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3812 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3815 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3816 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3817 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3818 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3819 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3821 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3822 remove debian/files properly.
3823 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3824 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3825 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3826 * Removed bogus menu file.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3830 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3833 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3837 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3840 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3841 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3842 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3843 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3844 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3845 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3849 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3852 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3853 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3854 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3855 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3859 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3866 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3869 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3870 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3872 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3873 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3874 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3875 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3876 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3877 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3881 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3884 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3885 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3886 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3887 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3888 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3889 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3890 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3891 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3892 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3893 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3894 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3895 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3896 passed any switches.
3897 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3901 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3904 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3905 at all for a long while.
3906 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3907 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3908 large chunks in the process.
3909 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3910 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3911 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3916 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3919 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3921 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3926 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3929 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3930 that don't always have the same files in them.
3931 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3932 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3933 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3937 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3941 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3942 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3943 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3944 updating 27 man pages.
3945 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3946 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3947 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3948 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3949 programs act on. (#25247)
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3953 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3957 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3958 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3959 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3960 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3961 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3962 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3967 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3974 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3981 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3984 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3988 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3994 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3997 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3998 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3999 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4000 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4001 package by accident.
4002 * Is version 1.0 next?
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4006 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4009 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4010 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4014 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4017 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4018 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4019 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4020 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4021 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4023 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4028 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4031 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4032 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4036 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4039 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4043 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4046 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4047 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4052 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4058 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4061 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4062 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4067 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4073 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4076 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4077 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4078 past week. Thanks, guys!
4080 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4081 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4082 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4083 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4084 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4085 would do in the same situation.
4086 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4087 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4089 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4091 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4092 permissions changed.
4093 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4094 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4095 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4096 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4097 files are treated identically.
4098 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4099 * Minor man page fixes.
4100 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4101 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4102 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4106 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4109 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4110 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4111 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4112 use -X multiple times, too.
4113 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4114 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4118 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4121 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4122 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4126 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4129 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4133 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4136 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4137 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4138 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4139 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4140 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4141 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4142 shape if you're starting a new package.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4146 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4149 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4153 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4156 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4157 because of missing symlinks.
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4161 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4167 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4170 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4171 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4172 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4173 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4174 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4176 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4177 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4181 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4183 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4184 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4185 to be changed after the fact :-)
4186 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4190 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4192 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4193 no version string after the -V.
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4197 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4199 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4200 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4205 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4208 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4212 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4215 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4216 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4217 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4218 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4219 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4220 I always welcome corrections!
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4224 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4230 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4233 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4234 * Documented this new switch.
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4238 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4241 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4242 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4243 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4244 no packages use the old behavior.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4248 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4251 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4252 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4256 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4259 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4263 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4269 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4272 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4276 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4279 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4280 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4281 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4285 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4291 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4294 into the source package by accident.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4298 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4301 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4302 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4303 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4304 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4305 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4306 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4311 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4315 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4316 inspired to implement some of it.
4317 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4321 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4324 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4328 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4331 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4332 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4336 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4339 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4340 have done.) (#17598)
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4344 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4350 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4356 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4359 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4363 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4366 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4367 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4371 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4374 argument processor in perl.
4375 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4376 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4377 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4378 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4382 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4385 type directories. (#16933)
4386 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4387 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4388 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4389 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4390 are supported. (#16935)
4391 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4396 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4399 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4403 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4407 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4408 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4409 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4410 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4411 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4412 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4416 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4419 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4420 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4422 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4423 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4424 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4425 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4426 a given package, or -i or -a.
4427 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4428 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4429 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4430 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4431 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4432 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4433 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4434 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4435 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4437 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4438 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4439 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4443 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4446 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4447 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4452 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4455 does not have a section.
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4459 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4462 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4463 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4464 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4468 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Fixed typo #16215.
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4474 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4477 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4478 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4479 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4480 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4481 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4486 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4489 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4490 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4491 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4496 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4502 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4508 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4511 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4512 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4513 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4514 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4515 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4516 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4520 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4526 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4529 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4533 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4536 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4537 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4538 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4542 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4545 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4549 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4555 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4558 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4562 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4565 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4569 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4575 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4578 postinst, postrm, etc.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4582 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4588 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4591 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4592 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4593 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4594 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4595 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4599 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4602 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4603 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4607 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4610 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4614 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4617 installing package files into.
4618 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4623 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4627 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4631 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4637 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4640 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4644 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4647 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4648 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4649 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4650 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4654 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4656 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4657 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4658 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4659 multiple binary packages.
4660 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4661 should rebuild them with this version.
4662 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4666 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4669 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4673 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4676 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4680 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4682 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4683 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4684 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4685 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4686 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4687 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4688 debian/README.debian.
4689 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4690 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4691 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4692 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4693 in a few situations.)
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4697 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4703 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4709 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4712 * Fixed several man pages.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4716 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4719 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4720 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4724 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4727 is ready for general use.
4728 * Added man pages for all commands.
4729 * Multiple binary package support.
4730 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4731 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4732 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4734 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4735 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4736 auto-installed as parameters.
4737 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4739 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4742 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4743 the package build directory it is to act on.
4744 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4745 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4746 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4750 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4752 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4753 ready to replace debstd.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400