1 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_cgonf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
8 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
11 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
15 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
18 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
19 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
20 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
21 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
22 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
23 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
25 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
26 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
27 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
28 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
29 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
30 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
31 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
32 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
33 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
34 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
35 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
36 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
37 in the others, and added a few new tests.
38 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
39 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
40 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
44 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
51 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
54 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
58 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
61 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
65 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
68 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
72 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
75 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
79 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
85 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
91 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
97 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
100 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
101 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
102 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
106 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
109 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
113 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
116 but occasionally right and necessary.
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
120 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
123 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
124 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
125 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
126 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
127 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937a
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
131 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
134 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
136 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
137 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
138 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
139 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
140 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
141 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
142 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
143 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
144 postinst scripts for udebs.
145 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
149 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
152 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
154 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
155 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
159 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
165 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
172 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
179 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
182 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
186 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
189 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
193 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
196 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
199 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
200 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
204 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
210 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
213 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
217 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
220 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
221 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
222 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
224 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
226 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
227 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
228 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
232 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
235 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
240 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
243 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
244 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
245 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
250 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
256 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
262 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
265 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
266 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
267 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
268 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
269 associated -dbg packages.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
273 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
276 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
280 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
282 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
283 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
287 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
289 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
290 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
294 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
297 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
302 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Typo. Closes: #207999
305 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
309 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
312 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
317 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
320 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
324 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
328 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
329 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
330 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
331 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
332 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
333 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
334 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
335 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
336 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
337 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
341 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
344 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
349 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
352 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
353 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
357 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
360 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
361 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
366 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
369 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
373 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
376 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
380 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
383 out section number. Closes: #204731
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
387 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
394 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
400 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
406 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Typo, Closes: #203907
409 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
410 removal. Closes: #204286
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
414 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
417 renaming. Closes: #203548
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
421 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
424 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
425 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
429 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
435 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
441 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
447 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
450 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
451 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
452 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
456 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
459 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
460 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
464 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
470 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
477 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
480 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
485 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
488 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
492 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
495 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
497 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
498 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
502 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
505 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
510 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
513 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
517 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
523 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
525 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
529 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
531 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
532 it break hard links (see #188663).
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
536 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
539 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
543 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
549 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
553 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
554 debconf-mergetemplates
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
558 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
561 pod2man. Closes: #184013
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
565 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
568 * Typo, Closes: #183267
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
572 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
575 * Update debhelper(1).
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
579 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
581 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
582 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
583 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
584 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
585 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
586 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
590 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
593 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
594 the shell. Closes: #178524
595 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
599 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
602 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
606 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
609 undocumented.7 links anymore.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
613 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
615 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
616 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
617 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
618 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
619 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
624 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
627 files from installation.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
631 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
634 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
635 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
639 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
642 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
646 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
649 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
653 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
655 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
659 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
665 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
667 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
669 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
670 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
672 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
676 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
679 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
680 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
681 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
682 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
686 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
688 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
689 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
693 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
696 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
697 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
701 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
705 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
710 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
716 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
720 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
721 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
722 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
727 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
730 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
731 practice. Closes: #163303
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
735 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
737 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
741 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
748 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
750 * The "reverse hangover" release.
751 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
753 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
754 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
755 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
756 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
757 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
761 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
764 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
769 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
775 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
782 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
785 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
790 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
796 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
802 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
808 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
815 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
818 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
819 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
820 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
821 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
826 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Typo, Closes: #155323
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
832 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
839 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
842 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
843 * Removed dh_installxaw.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
847 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
850 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
851 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
852 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
853 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
854 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
858 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
861 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
863 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
868 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
870 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
871 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
875 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
878 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
879 right thing. Closes: #150644
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
883 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
890 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
892 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
897 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
900 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
901 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
906 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
912 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
915 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
919 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
922 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
923 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
928 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
931 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
935 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
941 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
944 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
945 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
949 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
955 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Removing perl warning message.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
961 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
964 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
965 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
966 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
967 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
968 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
969 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
970 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
971 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
975 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
981 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
988 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
991 debconf-mergetemplate.
992 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
993 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
997 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1000 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1001 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1002 dh_install, which ...
1003 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1004 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1005 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1006 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1007 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1008 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1009 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1010 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1011 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1012 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1013 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1014 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1015 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1016 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1017 other minor changes.
1018 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1019 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1020 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1021 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1022 course there's -X ..)
1023 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1024 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1025 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1027 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1028 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1029 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1030 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1031 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1036 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1042 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1045 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1049 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1055 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1061 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1067 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1073 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1076 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1077 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1078 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1079 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1081 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1082 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1086 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1092 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1095 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1099 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1102 upset. Closes: #131322
1104 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1106 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1109 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1110 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1111 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1112 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1113 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1114 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1115 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1116 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1117 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1118 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1119 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1120 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1121 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1122 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1123 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1125 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1129 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1132 - Better indenting of generated code.
1133 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1137 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1141 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1142 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1143 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1144 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1145 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1146 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1147 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1151 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1154 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1158 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1161 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1162 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1163 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1164 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1165 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1166 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1167 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1168 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1169 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1170 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1171 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1172 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1173 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1174 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1175 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1180 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1186 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1189 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1190 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1194 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1197 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1198 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1202 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1208 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1211 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1212 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1213 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1214 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1215 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1220 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1226 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1229 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1233 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1236 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1241 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1247 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1250 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1254 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1260 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1264 Also some indentation fixes.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1268 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1271 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1272 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1273 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1274 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1275 Closes: #106514, #85520
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1279 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1285 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1291 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1297 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1303 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1309 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1312 change it in debhelper v4..
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1316 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1322 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1325 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1329 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1332 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1336 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1342 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1345 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1346 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1347 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1348 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1349 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1350 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1351 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1352 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1353 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1354 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1355 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1356 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1360 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1363 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1367 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1374 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1377 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1378 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1379 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1380 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1381 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1382 program those options go to. So, for example,
1383 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1384 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1385 something complex. Closes: #89311
1386 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1390 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1393 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1394 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1395 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1399 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1402 through loop. Closes: #98598
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1406 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Missing semi-colon.
1409 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1410 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1414 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1417 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1418 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1419 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1423 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1426 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1427 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1431 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1434 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1438 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1441 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1442 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1446 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1449 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1450 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1451 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1455 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1458 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1459 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1460 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1464 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1467 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1471 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1477 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1483 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1489 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1495 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1498 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1502 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1505 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1506 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1507 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1508 followed. Closes: #85483
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1512 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1514 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1515 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1516 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1520 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1523 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1524 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1525 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1526 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1527 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1528 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1529 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1530 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1531 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1532 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1533 Closes: #88464, #77743
1534 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1535 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1536 us to deal with that gracefully.
1537 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1539 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1540 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1541 a while, Closes: #51225
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1545 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1551 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1554 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1558 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1562 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1567 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1570 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1571 don't make packlist files.
1572 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1573 debhelper coding standards.
1574 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1575 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1579 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1582 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1586 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1589 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1590 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1591 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1592 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1593 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1594 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1595 but is mildly deprecated.
1596 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1597 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1598 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1599 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1600 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1601 switching to statoverrides..
1602 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1603 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1604 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1605 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1606 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1607 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1609 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1610 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1611 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1612 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1613 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1614 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1615 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1616 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1617 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1619 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1620 variable names, pod man pages).
1621 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1622 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1623 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1624 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1625 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1626 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1627 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1631 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1637 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1644 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1647 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1651 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1653 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1654 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1655 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1659 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1661 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1662 they were previously ignored.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1666 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1668 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1669 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1673 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1675 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1676 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1677 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1681 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1683 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1687 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1689 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1690 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1694 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1696 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1697 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1698 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1699 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1700 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1701 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1702 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1703 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1704 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1705 it is an obsolete program.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1709 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1711 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1715 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1719 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1721 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1725 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1727 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1729 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1731 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1735 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1741 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * typo: Closes, #78567
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1747 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1753 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1759 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1762 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1763 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1764 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1765 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1766 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1770 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1773 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1778 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1781 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1782 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1783 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1784 backwards-compatability.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1788 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1791 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1792 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1793 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1794 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1795 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1796 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1798 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1799 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1800 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1802 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1804 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1805 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1806 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1807 should now be raised to severity important..
1808 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1809 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1813 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1816 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1821 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1827 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1833 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1839 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1846 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1849 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1850 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1851 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1852 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1856 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1862 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1865 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1866 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1867 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1868 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1869 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1870 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1875 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1878 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1882 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1888 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1891 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1896 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1899 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1900 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1901 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1902 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1910 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1913 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1916 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1917 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1920 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1922 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1923 the TODO entry about it.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1927 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1934 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1937 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1938 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1942 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1945 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1946 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1947 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1948 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1952 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1958 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1965 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1968 (this appears to be logal).
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1972 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1975 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1976 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1977 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1978 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1982 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1988 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1991 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1992 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1993 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1994 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1998 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2004 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2007 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2011 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2018 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2021 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2022 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2023 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2028 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2035 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2041 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2044 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2045 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2046 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2047 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2048 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2049 notice until v2 is complete.
2050 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2051 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2052 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2053 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2054 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2055 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2057 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2058 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2059 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2060 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2064 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2070 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2077 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2080 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2084 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2091 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2094 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2095 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2096 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2097 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2102 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2105 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2106 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2107 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2112 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2115 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2116 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2120 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2123 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2127 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2130 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2134 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2141 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2144 depend on the build and install targets.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2148 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2151 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2155 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2162 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2168 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2174 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2177 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2178 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2179 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2180 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2181 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2182 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2184 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2185 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2186 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2187 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2188 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2189 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2190 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2194 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2200 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2206 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2209 right place. Closes: #55065
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2213 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2220 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2223 * Copyright date updates.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2227 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2230 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2235 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2241 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2248 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2254 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2260 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2266 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2269 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2270 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2271 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2272 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2273 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2274 bits until all files have been registered.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2278 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_installmanpages:
2281 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2282 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2283 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2284 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2285 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2286 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2287 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2288 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2289 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2290 otherwise change the result at all.
2292 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2293 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2294 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2295 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2296 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2301 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2307 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2310 act on files that don't exist.
2311 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2312 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2313 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2315 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2316 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2317 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2318 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2322 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2328 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2334 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2337 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2341 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2344 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2346 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2347 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2348 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2352 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2355 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2356 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2357 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2358 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2359 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2360 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2361 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2363 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2365 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2369 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2376 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2382 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2388 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2391 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2395 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2401 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2407 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2410 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2411 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2412 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2413 I made some changes, though:
2414 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2415 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2416 that is a clear violation of policy.
2417 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2418 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2419 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2420 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2421 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2422 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2423 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2424 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2425 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2427 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2431 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2437 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2440 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2444 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2447 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2448 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2453 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2459 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2466 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2469 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2470 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2471 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2472 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2473 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2474 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2475 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2479 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2485 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2489 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2490 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2494 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2500 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2503 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2507 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2510 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2511 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2515 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2517 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2522 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2526 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2530 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2533 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2534 for the dependancies to be generated.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2538 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2541 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2545 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2548 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2549 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2550 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2555 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2558 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2559 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2563 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2569 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2575 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2578 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2582 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2588 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2591 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2592 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2593 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2594 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2595 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2596 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2597 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2598 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2599 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2600 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2601 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2602 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2606 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2609 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2610 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2612 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2613 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2614 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2615 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2616 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2617 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2619 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2620 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2624 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2627 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2631 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2638 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2641 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2646 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2649 for building debhelper.
2650 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2654 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2661 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2664 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2668 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2671 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2672 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2673 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2674 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2675 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2676 it's always available.
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2680 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2683 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2684 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2685 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2689 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2692 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2693 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2697 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2703 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2706 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2710 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2716 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2719 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2720 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2721 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2725 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2728 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2733 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2736 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2737 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2739 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2740 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2744 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2750 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2756 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2759 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2763 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2766 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2767 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2769 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2773 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2776 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2777 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2778 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2782 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2785 things if CDPATH is set.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2789 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2795 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2798 seems to make sense for the transition.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2802 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2805 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2810 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2813 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2814 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2818 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2821 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2825 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2828 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2829 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2830 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2831 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2835 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2841 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2844 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2845 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2846 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2847 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2848 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2849 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2850 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2851 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2852 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2853 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2858 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2861 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2862 * README: mention doc/v2
2863 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2864 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2868 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2870 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2871 be using this script RSN.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2875 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2878 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2879 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2880 more than 1 init script.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2884 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2887 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2891 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Changed perl version detection.
2894 * Changed call to find.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2898 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2901 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2903 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2908 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Really include dh_installpam.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2914 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2917 * Wrote man page for same.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2921 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2924 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2925 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2930 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2937 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2940 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2941 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2942 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2943 x bit was being set!
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2947 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2950 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2951 well. (Closes: 38900)
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2955 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2958 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2959 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2963 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2969 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2976 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2982 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2985 help from Julian Gilbey.
2986 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2987 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2988 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2989 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2990 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2991 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2992 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2997 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3003 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3010 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3016 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3022 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3025 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3029 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3032 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3036 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3039 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3043 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3049 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3052 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3056 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3062 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3068 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3071 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3072 may be deleted. (#35845)
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3076 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * Various man page enhancements.
3079 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3084 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3087 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3088 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3092 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3095 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3096 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3097 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3099 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3100 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3105 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3111 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Another very minor typo fix.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3117 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Very minor typo fix.
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3123 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3126 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3127 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3131 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3137 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3140 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3141 variables properly (#34850).
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3145 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3151 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3154 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3155 (automatically generated by build process).
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3159 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3161 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3165 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3168 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3169 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3171 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3175 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3178 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3182 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * README: minor typo fix.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3188 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3191 leave it at that. :-)
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3195 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3201 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3207 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3210 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3211 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3212 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3216 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3219 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3223 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3226 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3230 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3233 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3234 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3235 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3236 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3240 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3243 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3244 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3245 Craig Small for spotting this.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3249 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3252 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3253 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3257 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3263 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3266 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3270 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3272 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3273 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3274 working on the last version of debhelper.
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3278 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3281 being made. (#23255)
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3285 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3291 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3294 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3298 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3301 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3302 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3303 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3304 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3308 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3311 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3312 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3313 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3314 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3316 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3317 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3319 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3324 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3330 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3336 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3339 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3340 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3341 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3342 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3343 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3344 suidregister actually supports it.
3345 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3346 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3350 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3357 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3360 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3361 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3362 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3363 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3364 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3365 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3366 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3370 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3372 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3373 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3377 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3380 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3381 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3382 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3383 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3387 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3390 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3392 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3393 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3394 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3395 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3396 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3397 effect, either. (#30118)
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3401 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3407 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3410 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3411 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3415 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3421 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3424 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3425 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3426 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3427 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3431 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3434 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3435 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3439 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3445 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3448 packages, painlessly.
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3452 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3458 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3464 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3470 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * The perl conversion is complete.
3474 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3476 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3477 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3478 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3483 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3486 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3487 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3488 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3492 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3495 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3497 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3499 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3500 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3504 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3507 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3508 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3512 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3518 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3521 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3522 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3523 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3524 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3525 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3529 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3532 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3533 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3534 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3535 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3539 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3542 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3546 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3549 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3550 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3551 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3552 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3553 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3554 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3555 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3556 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3560 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3566 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3569 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3570 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3571 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3576 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3579 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3583 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3586 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3590 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3593 sections of shared libraries.
3594 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3595 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3596 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3597 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3598 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3599 things you don't want them to.
3600 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3601 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3605 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3608 shared libraries. (#26414)
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3612 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3614 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3615 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3616 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3617 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3621 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3625 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3627 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3628 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3629 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3630 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3631 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3635 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3638 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3642 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3645 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3646 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3651 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3654 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3658 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3661 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3662 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3663 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3664 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3665 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3667 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3668 remove debian/files properly.
3669 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3670 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3671 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3672 * Removed bogus menu file.
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3676 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3679 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3683 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3686 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3687 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3688 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3689 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3690 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3691 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3695 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3698 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3699 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3700 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3701 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3705 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3712 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3715 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3716 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3718 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3719 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3720 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3721 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3722 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3723 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3727 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3730 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3731 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3732 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3733 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3734 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3735 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3736 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3737 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3738 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3739 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3740 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3741 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3742 passed any switches.
3743 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3747 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3750 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3751 at all for a long while.
3752 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3753 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3754 large chunks in the process.
3755 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3756 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3757 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3762 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3765 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3767 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3772 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3775 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3776 that don't always have the same files in them.
3777 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3778 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3779 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3783 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3787 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3788 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3789 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3790 updating 27 man pages.
3791 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3792 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3793 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3794 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3795 programs act on. (#25247)
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3799 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3803 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3804 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3805 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3806 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3807 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3808 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3813 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3820 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3827 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3830 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3834 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3840 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3843 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3844 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3845 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3846 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3847 package by accident.
3848 * Is version 1.0 next?
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3852 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3855 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3856 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3860 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3863 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3864 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3865 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3866 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3867 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3869 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3874 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3877 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3878 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3882 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3885 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3889 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3892 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3893 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3898 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3904 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3907 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3908 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3913 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3919 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3922 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3923 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3924 past week. Thanks, guys!
3926 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3927 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3928 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3929 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3930 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3931 would do in the same situation.
3932 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3933 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3935 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3937 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3938 permissions changed.
3939 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3940 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3941 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3942 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3943 files are treated identically.
3944 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3945 * Minor man page fixes.
3946 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3947 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3948 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3952 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3955 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3956 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3957 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3958 use -X multiple times, too.
3959 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3960 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3964 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3967 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3968 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3972 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3975 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3979 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3982 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3983 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3984 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3985 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3986 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3987 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3988 shape if you're starting a new package.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3992 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3995 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3999 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4002 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4003 because of missing symlinks.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4007 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4013 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4016 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4017 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4018 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4019 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4020 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4022 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4023 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4027 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4029 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4030 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4031 to be changed after the fact :-)
4032 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4036 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4038 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4039 no version string after the -V.
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4043 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4045 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4046 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4051 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4054 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4058 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4061 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4062 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4063 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4064 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4065 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4066 I always welcome corrections!
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4070 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4076 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4079 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4080 * Documented this new switch.
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4084 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4087 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4088 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4089 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4090 no packages use the old behavior.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4094 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4097 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4098 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4102 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4105 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4109 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4115 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4118 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4122 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4125 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4126 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4127 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4131 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4137 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4140 into the source package by accident.
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4144 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4147 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4148 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4149 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4150 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4151 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4152 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4157 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4161 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4162 inspired to implement some of it.
4163 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4167 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4170 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4174 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4177 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4178 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4182 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4185 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4186 have done.) (#17598)
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4190 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4196 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4202 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4205 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4209 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4212 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4213 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4217 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4220 argument processor in perl.
4221 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4222 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4223 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4224 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4228 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4231 type directories. (#16933)
4232 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4233 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4234 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4235 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4236 are supported. (#16935)
4237 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4242 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4245 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4249 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4253 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4254 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4255 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4256 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4257 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4258 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4262 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4265 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4266 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4268 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4269 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4270 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4271 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4272 a given package, or -i or -a.
4273 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4274 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4275 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4276 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4277 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4278 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4279 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4280 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4281 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4283 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4284 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4285 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4289 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4292 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4293 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4298 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4301 does not have a section.
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4305 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4308 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4309 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4310 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4314 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * Fixed typo #16215.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4320 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4323 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4324 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4325 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4326 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4327 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4332 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4335 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4336 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4337 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4342 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4348 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4354 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4357 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4358 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4359 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4360 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4361 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4362 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4366 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4372 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4375 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4379 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4382 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4383 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4384 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4388 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4390 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4391 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4395 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4401 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4404 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4408 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4411 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4415 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4421 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4424 postinst, postrm, etc.
4426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4428 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4430 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4434 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4437 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4438 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4439 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4440 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4441 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4445 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4448 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4449 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4453 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4456 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4460 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4463 installing package files into.
4464 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4469 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4473 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4477 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4483 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4486 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4490 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4493 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4494 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4495 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4496 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4500 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4502 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4503 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4504 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4505 multiple binary packages.
4506 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4507 should rebuild them with this version.
4508 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4512 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4515 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4519 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4522 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4526 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4529 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4530 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4531 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4532 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4533 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4534 debian/README.debian.
4535 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4536 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4537 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4538 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4539 in a few situations.)
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4543 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4549 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4555 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4558 * Fixed several man pages.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4562 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4565 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4566 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4570 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4573 is ready for general use.
4574 * Added man pages for all commands.
4575 * Multiple binary package support.
4576 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4577 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4578 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4580 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4581 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4582 auto-installed as parameters.
4583 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4585 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4588 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4589 the package build directory it is to act on.
4590 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4591 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4592 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4596 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4598 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4599 ready to replace debstd.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400