1 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
7 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
10 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
11 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
12 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
13 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
14 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
15 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
16 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
17 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
18 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
19 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
20 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
21 prefixed with ".debhelper")
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
25 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
28 look just like shared libs, but are not.
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
32 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
39 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
42 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
43 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
44 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
45 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
46 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
47 program those options go to. So, for example,
48 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
49 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
50 something complex. Closes: #89311
51 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
55 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
58 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
59 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
60 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
64 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
67 through loop. Closes: #98598
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
71 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
75 this (dh_* should be called, really).
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
79 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
81 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
82 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
83 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
84 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
88 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
90 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
91 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
92 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
96 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
99 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
103 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
106 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
107 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
111 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
114 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
115 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
116 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
120 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
123 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
124 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
125 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
129 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
132 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
136 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
142 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Typo, Closes: #92407
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
148 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
154 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
160 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
163 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
167 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
170 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
171 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
172 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
173 followed. Closes: #85483
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
177 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
179 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
180 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
181 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
185 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
188 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
189 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
190 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
191 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
192 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
193 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
194 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
195 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
196 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
197 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
198 Closes: #88464, #77743
199 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
200 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
201 us to deal with that gracefully.
202 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
204 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
205 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
206 a while, Closes: #51225
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
210 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
216 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
218 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
219 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
223 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
227 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
232 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
235 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
236 don't make packlist files.
237 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
238 debhelper coding standards.
239 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
240 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
244 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
247 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
251 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
254 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
255 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
256 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
257 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
258 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
259 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
260 but is mildly deprecated.
261 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
262 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
263 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
264 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
265 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
266 switching to statoverrides..
267 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
268 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
269 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
270 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
271 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
272 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
274 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
275 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
276 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
277 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
278 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
279 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
280 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
281 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
282 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
284 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
285 variable names, pod man pages).
286 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
287 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
288 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
289 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
290 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
291 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
292 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
296 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
302 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
309 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
312 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
316 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
318 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
319 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
320 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
324 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
326 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
327 they were previously ignored.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
331 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
333 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
334 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
338 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
340 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
341 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
342 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
346 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
348 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
352 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
354 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
355 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
359 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
361 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
362 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
363 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
364 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
365 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
366 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
367 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
368 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
369 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
370 it is an obsolete program.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
374 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
376 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
380 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
384 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
386 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
390 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
392 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
394 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
396 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
400 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
406 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
408 * typo: Closes, #78567
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
412 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
418 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
424 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
426 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
427 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
428 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
429 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
430 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
431 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
435 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
438 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
443 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
446 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
447 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
448 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
449 backwards-compatability.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
453 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
455 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
456 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
457 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
458 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
459 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
460 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
461 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
463 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
464 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
465 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
467 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
469 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
470 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
471 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
472 should now be raised to severity important..
473 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
474 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
478 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
481 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
486 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Typo, Closes: #77441
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
492 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Completed the fix from the last version.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
498 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
504 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
506 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
511 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
514 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
515 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
516 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
517 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
521 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
527 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
530 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
531 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
532 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
533 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
534 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
535 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
540 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
543 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
547 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
553 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
556 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
561 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
564 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
565 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
566 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
567 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
571 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
575 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
578 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
580 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
581 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
582 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
585 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
587 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
588 the TODO entry about it.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
592 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
599 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
602 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
603 prevent that. Closes: #73052
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
607 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
609 * Typo, Closes: #72932
610 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
611 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
612 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
613 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
617 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
623 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
630 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
633 (this appears to be logal).
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
637 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
640 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
641 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
642 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
643 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
647 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
653 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
655 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
656 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
657 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
658 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
659 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
663 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
669 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
672 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
676 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
683 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
686 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
687 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
688 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
693 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
700 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
706 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
708 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
709 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
710 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
711 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
712 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
713 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
714 notice until v2 is complete.
715 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
716 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
717 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
718 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
719 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
720 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
722 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
723 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
724 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
725 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
729 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
735 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
742 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
745 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
749 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
756 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
759 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
760 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
761 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
762 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
767 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
770 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
771 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
772 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
777 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
780 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
781 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
785 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
787 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
788 just skip files that end in -\d+.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
792 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
795 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
799 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
806 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
808 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
809 depend on the build and install targets.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
813 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
816 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
820 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
827 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
833 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
839 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
842 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
843 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
844 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
845 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
846 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
847 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
849 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
850 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
851 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
852 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
853 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
854 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
855 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
859 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
865 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
871 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
873 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
874 right place. Closes: #55065
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
878 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
885 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Make all examples rules files executable.
888 * Copyright date updates.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
892 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
895 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
900 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
906 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
913 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
919 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
925 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
927 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
931 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
934 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
935 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
936 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
937 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
938 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
939 bits until all files have been registered.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
943 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_installmanpages:
946 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
947 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
948 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
949 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
950 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
951 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
952 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
953 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
954 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
955 otherwise change the result at all.
957 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
958 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
959 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
960 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
961 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
966 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
968 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
972 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
975 act on files that don't exist.
976 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
977 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
978 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
980 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
981 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
982 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
983 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
987 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
993 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
999 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1002 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1006 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1009 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1011 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1012 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1013 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1017 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1020 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1021 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1022 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1023 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1024 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1025 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1026 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1028 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1030 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1034 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1041 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1047 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1053 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1056 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1060 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1066 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1072 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1075 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1076 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1077 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1078 I made some changes, though:
1079 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1080 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1081 that is a clear violation of policy.
1082 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1083 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1084 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1085 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1086 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1087 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1088 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1089 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1090 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1092 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1096 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1102 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1105 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1109 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1112 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1113 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1118 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1124 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1131 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1134 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1135 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1136 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1137 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1138 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1139 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1140 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1144 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1150 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1154 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1155 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1165 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1168 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1172 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1175 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1176 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1180 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1182 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1187 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1191 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1195 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1198 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1199 for the dependancies to be generated.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1203 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1206 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1210 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1213 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1214 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1215 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1220 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1223 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1224 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1228 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1234 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1240 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1243 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1247 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1253 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1256 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1257 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1258 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1259 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1260 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1261 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1262 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1263 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1264 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1265 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1266 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1267 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1271 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1274 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1275 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1277 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1278 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1279 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1280 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1281 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1282 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1284 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1285 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1289 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1292 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1296 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1303 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1306 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1311 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1314 for building debhelper.
1315 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1319 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1326 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1329 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1333 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1336 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1337 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1338 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1339 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1340 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1341 it's always available.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1345 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1348 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1349 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1350 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1354 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1357 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1358 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1362 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1368 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1371 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1375 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1381 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1384 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1385 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1386 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1390 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1393 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1398 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1401 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1402 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1404 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1405 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1409 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1415 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1421 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1424 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1428 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1431 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1432 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1434 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1438 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1441 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1442 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1443 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1447 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1450 things if CDPATH is set.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1454 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1460 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1463 seems to make sense for the transition.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1467 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1470 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1475 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1478 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1479 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1483 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1486 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1490 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1493 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1494 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1495 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1496 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1500 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1506 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1509 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1510 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1511 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1512 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1513 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1514 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1515 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1516 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1517 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1518 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1523 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1526 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1527 * README: mention doc/v2
1528 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1529 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1533 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1535 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1536 be using this script RSN.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1540 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1543 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1544 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1545 more than 1 init script.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1549 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1552 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1556 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Changed perl version detection.
1559 * Changed call to find.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1563 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1566 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1568 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1573 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Really include dh_installpam.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1579 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1582 * Wrote man page for same.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1586 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1589 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1590 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1595 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1602 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1605 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1606 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1607 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1608 x bit was being set!
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1612 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1615 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1616 well. (Closes: 38900)
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1620 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1623 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1624 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1628 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1634 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1641 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1647 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1650 help from Julian Gilbey.
1651 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1652 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1653 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1654 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1655 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1656 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1657 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1662 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1668 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1675 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1681 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1687 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1690 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1694 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1697 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1701 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1704 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1708 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1714 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1717 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1721 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1727 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1733 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1736 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1737 may be deleted. (#35845)
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1741 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Various man page enhancements.
1744 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1749 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1752 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1753 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1757 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1760 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1761 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1762 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1764 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1765 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1770 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1776 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Another very minor typo fix.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1782 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Very minor typo fix.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1788 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1791 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1792 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1796 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1802 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1805 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1806 variables properly (#34850).
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1810 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1816 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1819 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1820 (automatically generated by build process).
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1824 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1826 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1830 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1833 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1834 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1836 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1840 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1843 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1847 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * README: minor typo fix.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1853 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1856 leave it at that. :-)
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1860 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1866 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1872 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1875 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1876 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1877 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1881 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1884 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1888 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1891 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1895 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1898 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1899 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1900 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1901 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1905 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1908 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1909 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1910 Craig Small for spotting this.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1914 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1917 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1918 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1922 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1928 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1931 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1935 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1937 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1938 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1939 working on the last version of debhelper.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1943 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1946 being made. (#23255)
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1950 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1956 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1959 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1963 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1966 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1967 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1968 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1969 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1973 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1976 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1977 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1978 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1979 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1981 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1982 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1984 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1989 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1995 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2001 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2004 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2005 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2006 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2007 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2008 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2009 suidregister actually supports it.
2010 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2011 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2015 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2022 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2025 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2026 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2027 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2028 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2029 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2030 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2031 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2035 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2037 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2038 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2042 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2045 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2046 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2047 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2048 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2052 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2055 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2057 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2058 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2059 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2060 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2061 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2062 effect, either. (#30118)
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2066 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2072 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2075 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2076 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2080 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2086 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2089 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2090 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2091 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2092 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2096 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2099 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2100 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2104 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2110 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2113 packages, painlessly.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2117 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2123 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2129 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2135 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * The perl conversion is complete.
2139 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2141 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2142 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2143 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2148 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2151 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2152 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2153 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2157 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2160 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2162 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2164 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2165 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2169 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2172 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2173 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2177 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2183 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2186 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2187 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2188 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2189 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2190 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2194 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2197 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2198 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2199 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2200 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2204 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2207 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2211 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2214 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2215 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2216 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2217 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2218 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2219 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2220 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2221 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2225 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2231 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2234 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2235 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2236 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2241 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2244 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2248 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2251 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2255 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2258 sections of shared libraries.
2259 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2260 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2261 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2262 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2263 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2264 things you don't want them to.
2265 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2266 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2270 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2273 shared libraries. (#26414)
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2277 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2279 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2280 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2281 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2282 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2286 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2290 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2292 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2293 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2294 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2295 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2296 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2300 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2303 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2307 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2310 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2311 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2316 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2319 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2323 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2326 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2327 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2328 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2329 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2330 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2332 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2333 remove debian/files properly.
2334 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2335 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2336 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2337 * Removed bogus menu file.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2341 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2344 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2348 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2351 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2352 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2353 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2354 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2355 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2356 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2360 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2363 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2364 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2365 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2366 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2370 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2377 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2380 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2381 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2383 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2384 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2385 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2386 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2387 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2388 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2392 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2395 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2396 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2397 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2398 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2399 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2400 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2401 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2402 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2403 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2404 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2405 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2406 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2407 passed any switches.
2408 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2412 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2415 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2416 at all for a long while.
2417 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2418 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2419 large chunks in the process.
2420 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2421 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2422 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2427 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2430 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2432 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2437 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2440 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2441 that don't always have the same files in them.
2442 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2443 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2444 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2448 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2452 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2453 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2454 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2455 updating 27 man pages.
2456 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2457 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2458 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2459 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2460 programs act on. (#25247)
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2464 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2468 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2469 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2470 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2471 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2472 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2473 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2478 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2485 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2492 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2495 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2499 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2505 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2508 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2509 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2510 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2511 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2512 package by accident.
2513 * Is version 1.0 next?
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2517 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2520 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2521 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2525 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2528 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2529 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2530 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2531 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2532 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2534 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2539 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2542 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2543 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2547 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2550 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2554 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2557 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2558 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2563 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2569 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2572 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2573 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2578 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2584 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2587 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2588 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2589 past week. Thanks, guys!
2591 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2592 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2593 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2594 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2595 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2596 would do in the same situation.
2597 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2598 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2600 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2602 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2603 permissions changed.
2604 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2605 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2606 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2607 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2608 files are treated identically.
2609 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2610 * Minor man page fixes.
2611 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2612 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2613 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2617 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2620 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2621 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2622 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2623 use -X multiple times, too.
2624 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2625 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2629 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2632 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2633 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2637 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2640 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2644 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2647 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2648 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2649 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2650 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2651 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2652 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2653 shape if you're starting a new package.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2657 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2660 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2664 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2667 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2668 because of missing symlinks.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2672 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2678 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2681 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2682 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2683 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2684 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2685 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2687 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2688 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2692 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2694 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2695 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2696 to be changed after the fact :-)
2697 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2701 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2704 no version string after the -V.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2708 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2710 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2711 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2716 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2719 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2723 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2726 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2727 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2728 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2729 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2730 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2731 I always welcome corrections!
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2735 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2741 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2744 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2745 * Documented this new switch.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2749 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2752 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2753 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2754 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2755 no packages use the old behavior.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2759 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2762 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2763 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2767 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2770 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2774 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2780 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2783 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2787 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2790 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2791 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2792 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2796 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2802 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2805 into the source package by accident.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2809 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2812 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2813 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2814 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2815 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2816 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2817 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2822 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2826 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2827 inspired to implement some of it.
2828 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2832 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2835 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2839 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2842 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2843 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2847 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2850 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2851 have done.) (#17598)
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2855 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2861 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2867 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2870 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2874 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2877 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2878 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2882 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2885 argument processor in perl.
2886 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2887 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2888 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2889 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2893 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2896 type directories. (#16933)
2897 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2898 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2899 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2900 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2901 are supported. (#16935)
2902 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2907 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2910 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2914 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2918 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2919 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2920 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2921 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2922 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2923 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2927 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2930 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2931 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2933 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2934 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2935 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2936 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2937 a given package, or -i or -a.
2938 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2939 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2940 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2941 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2942 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2943 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2944 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2945 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2946 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2948 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2949 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2950 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2954 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2957 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2958 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2963 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2966 does not have a section.
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2970 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2973 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2974 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2975 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2979 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * Fixed typo #16215.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2985 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2988 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2989 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2990 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2991 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2992 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2997 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3000 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3001 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3002 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3007 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3013 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3019 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3022 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3023 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3024 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3025 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3026 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3027 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3031 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3037 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3040 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3044 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3047 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3048 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3049 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3053 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3056 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3060 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3066 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3069 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3073 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3076 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3080 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3086 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3089 postinst, postrm, etc.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3093 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3099 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3102 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3103 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3104 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3105 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3106 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3110 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3113 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3114 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3118 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3121 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3125 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3128 installing package files into.
3129 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3134 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3138 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3142 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3148 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3151 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3155 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3158 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3159 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3160 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3161 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3165 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3167 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3168 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3169 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3170 multiple binary packages.
3171 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3172 should rebuild them with this version.
3173 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3177 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3180 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3184 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3187 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3191 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3194 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3195 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3196 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3197 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3198 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3199 debian/README.debian.
3200 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3201 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3202 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3203 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3204 in a few situations.)
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3208 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3214 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3220 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3223 * Fixed several man pages.
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3227 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3230 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3231 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3235 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3238 is ready for general use.
3239 * Added man pages for all commands.
3240 * Multiple binary package support.
3241 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3242 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3243 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3245 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3246 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3247 auto-installed as parameters.
3248 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3250 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3253 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3254 the package build directory it is to act on.
3255 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3256 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3257 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3261 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3263 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3264 ready to replace debstd.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400