1 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
7 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
10 change it in debhelper v4..
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
14 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
20 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
23 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
27 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
30 is not essential. Closes: #100430
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
34 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
40 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
43 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
44 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
45 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
46 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
47 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
48 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
49 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
50 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
51 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
52 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
53 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
54 prefixed with ".debhelper")
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
58 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
61 look just like shared libs, but are not.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
65 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
72 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
75 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
76 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
77 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
78 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
79 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
80 program those options go to. So, for example,
81 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
82 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
83 something complex. Closes: #89311
84 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
88 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
91 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
92 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
93 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
97 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
100 through loop. Closes: #98598
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
104 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Missing semi-colon.
107 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
108 this (dh_* should be called, really).
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
112 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
115 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
116 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
117 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
121 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
124 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
125 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
129 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
132 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
136 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
139 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
140 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
144 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
147 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
148 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
149 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
153 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
155 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
156 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
157 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
158 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
162 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
165 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
169 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
175 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Typo, Closes: #92407
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
181 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
187 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
193 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
196 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
200 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
203 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
204 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
205 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
206 followed. Closes: #85483
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
210 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
212 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
213 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
214 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
218 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
221 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
222 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
223 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
224 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
225 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
226 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
227 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
228 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
229 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
230 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
231 Closes: #88464, #77743
232 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
233 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
234 us to deal with that gracefully.
235 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
237 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
238 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
239 a while, Closes: #51225
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
243 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
249 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
252 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
256 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
260 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
265 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
268 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
269 don't make packlist files.
270 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
271 debhelper coding standards.
272 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
273 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
277 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
280 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
284 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
287 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
288 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
289 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
290 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
291 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
292 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
293 but is mildly deprecated.
294 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
295 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
296 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
297 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
298 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
299 switching to statoverrides..
300 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
301 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
302 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
303 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
304 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
305 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
307 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
308 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
309 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
310 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
311 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
312 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
313 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
314 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
315 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
317 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
318 variable names, pod man pages).
319 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
320 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
321 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
322 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
323 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
324 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
325 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
329 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
335 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
342 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
345 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
349 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
351 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
352 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
353 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
357 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
359 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
360 they were previously ignored.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
364 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
366 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
367 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
371 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
373 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
374 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
375 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
379 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
381 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
385 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
387 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
388 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
392 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
394 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
395 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
396 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
397 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
398 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
399 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
400 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
401 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
402 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
403 it is an obsolete program.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
407 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
409 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
413 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
417 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
419 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
423 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
425 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
427 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
429 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
433 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
439 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
441 * typo: Closes, #78567
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
445 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
447 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
451 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
457 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
459 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
460 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
461 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
462 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
463 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
464 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
468 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
471 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
476 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
479 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
480 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
481 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
482 backwards-compatability.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
486 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
488 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
489 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
490 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
491 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
492 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
493 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
494 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
496 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
497 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
498 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
500 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
502 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
503 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
504 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
505 should now be raised to severity important..
506 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
507 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
511 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
514 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
519 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Typo, Closes: #77441
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
525 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
527 * Completed the fix from the last version.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
531 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
533 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
537 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
539 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
544 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
547 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
548 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
549 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
550 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
554 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
560 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
563 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
564 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
565 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
566 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
567 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
568 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
573 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
575 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
576 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
580 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
586 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
588 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
589 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
594 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
596 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
597 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
598 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
599 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
600 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
604 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
608 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
611 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
614 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
615 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
618 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
620 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
621 the TODO entry about it.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
625 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
632 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
635 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
636 prevent that. Closes: #73052
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
640 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Typo, Closes: #72932
643 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
644 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
645 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
646 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
650 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
656 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
663 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
666 (this appears to be logal).
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
670 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
673 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
674 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
675 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
676 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
680 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
686 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
688 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
689 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
690 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
691 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
692 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
696 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
702 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
705 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
709 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
716 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
719 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
720 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
721 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
726 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
733 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
739 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
741 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
742 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
743 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
744 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
745 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
746 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
747 notice until v2 is complete.
748 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
749 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
750 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
751 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
752 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
753 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
755 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
756 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
757 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
758 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
762 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
768 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
775 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
778 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
782 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
789 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
792 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
793 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
794 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
795 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
800 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
803 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
804 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
805 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
810 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
813 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
814 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
818 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
821 just skip files that end in -\d+.
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
825 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
828 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
832 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
839 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
841 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
842 depend on the build and install targets.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
846 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
849 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
853 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
860 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
866 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
872 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
875 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
876 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
877 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
878 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
879 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
880 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
882 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
883 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
884 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
885 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
886 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
887 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
888 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
892 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
898 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
904 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
907 right place. Closes: #55065
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
911 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
918 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
920 * Make all examples rules files executable.
921 * Copyright date updates.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
925 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
928 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
933 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
939 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
946 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
952 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
954 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
958 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
964 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
967 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
968 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
969 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
970 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
971 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
972 bits until all files have been registered.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
976 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh_installmanpages:
979 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
980 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
981 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
982 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
983 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
984 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
985 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
986 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
987 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
988 otherwise change the result at all.
990 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
991 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
992 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
993 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
994 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
999 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1005 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1008 act on files that don't exist.
1009 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1010 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1011 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1013 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1014 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1015 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1016 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1020 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1026 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1032 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1035 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1039 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1042 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1044 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1045 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1046 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1050 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1053 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1054 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1055 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1056 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1057 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1058 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1059 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1061 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1063 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1067 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1074 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1080 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1086 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1089 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1099 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1105 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1108 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1109 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1110 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1111 I made some changes, though:
1112 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1113 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1114 that is a clear violation of policy.
1115 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1116 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1117 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1118 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1119 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1120 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1121 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1122 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1123 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1125 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1129 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1135 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1138 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1142 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1145 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1146 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1151 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1157 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1164 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1167 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1168 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1169 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1170 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1171 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1172 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1173 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1177 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1183 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1187 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1188 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1192 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1198 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1201 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1205 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1208 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1209 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1213 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1215 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1220 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1224 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1228 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1231 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1232 for the dependancies to be generated.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1236 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1239 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1243 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1246 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1247 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1248 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1253 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1256 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1257 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1261 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1273 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1276 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1280 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1286 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1289 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1290 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1291 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1292 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1293 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1294 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1295 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1296 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1297 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1298 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1299 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1300 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1304 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1307 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1308 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1310 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1311 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1312 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1313 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1314 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1315 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1317 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1318 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1322 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1325 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1329 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1336 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1339 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1344 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1347 for building debhelper.
1348 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1352 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1359 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1362 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1366 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1369 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1370 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1371 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1372 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1373 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1374 it's always available.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1378 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1381 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1382 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1383 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1387 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1390 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1391 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1395 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1401 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1404 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1408 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1414 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1417 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1418 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1419 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1423 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1426 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1431 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1434 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1435 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1437 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1438 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1442 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1448 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1454 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1457 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1461 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1464 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1465 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1467 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1471 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1474 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1475 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1476 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1480 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1483 things if CDPATH is set.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1487 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1493 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1496 seems to make sense for the transition.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1500 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1503 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1508 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1511 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1512 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1516 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1519 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1523 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1526 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1527 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1528 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1529 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1533 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1539 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1542 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1543 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1544 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1545 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1546 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1547 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1548 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1549 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1550 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1551 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1556 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1559 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1560 * README: mention doc/v2
1561 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1562 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1566 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1568 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1569 be using this script RSN.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1573 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1576 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1577 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1578 more than 1 init script.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1582 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1585 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1589 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Changed perl version detection.
1592 * Changed call to find.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1596 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1599 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1601 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1606 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Really include dh_installpam.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1612 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1615 * Wrote man page for same.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1619 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1622 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1623 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1628 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1635 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1638 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1639 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1640 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1641 x bit was being set!
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1645 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1648 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1649 well. (Closes: 38900)
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1653 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1656 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1657 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1661 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1667 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1674 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1680 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1683 help from Julian Gilbey.
1684 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1685 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1686 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1687 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1688 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1689 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1690 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1695 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1701 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1708 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1714 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1720 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1723 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1727 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1730 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1734 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1737 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1741 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1747 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1750 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1754 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1760 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1766 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1769 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1770 may be deleted. (#35845)
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1774 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Various man page enhancements.
1777 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1782 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1785 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1786 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1790 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1793 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1794 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1795 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1797 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1798 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1803 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1809 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Another very minor typo fix.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1815 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Very minor typo fix.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1821 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1824 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1825 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1829 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1835 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1838 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1839 variables properly (#34850).
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1843 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1849 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1852 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1853 (automatically generated by build process).
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1857 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1859 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1863 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1866 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1867 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1869 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1873 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1876 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1880 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * README: minor typo fix.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1886 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1889 leave it at that. :-)
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1893 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1899 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1905 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1908 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1909 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1910 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1914 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1917 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1921 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1924 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1928 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1931 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1932 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1933 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1934 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1938 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1941 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1942 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1943 Craig Small for spotting this.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1947 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1950 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1951 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1955 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1961 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1964 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1968 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1970 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1971 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1972 working on the last version of debhelper.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1976 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1979 being made. (#23255)
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1983 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1989 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1992 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1996 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1999 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2000 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2001 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2002 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2006 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2009 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2010 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2011 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2012 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2014 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2015 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2017 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2022 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2028 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2034 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2037 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2038 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2039 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2040 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2041 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2042 suidregister actually supports it.
2043 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2044 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2048 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2055 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2058 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2059 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2060 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2061 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2062 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2063 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2064 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2068 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2070 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2071 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2075 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2078 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2079 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2080 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2081 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2085 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2088 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2090 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2091 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2092 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2093 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2094 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2095 effect, either. (#30118)
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2099 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2105 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2108 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2109 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2113 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2119 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2122 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2123 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2124 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2125 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2129 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2132 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2133 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2137 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2143 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2146 packages, painlessly.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2150 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2156 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2162 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2168 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * The perl conversion is complete.
2172 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2174 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2175 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2176 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2181 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2184 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2185 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2186 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2190 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2193 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2195 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2197 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2198 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2202 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2205 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2206 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2210 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2216 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2219 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2220 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2221 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2222 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2223 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2227 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2230 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2231 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2232 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2233 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2237 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2240 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2244 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2247 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2248 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2249 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2250 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2251 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2252 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2253 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2254 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2258 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2264 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2267 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2268 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2269 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2274 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2277 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2281 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2284 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2288 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2291 sections of shared libraries.
2292 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2293 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2294 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2295 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2296 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2297 things you don't want them to.
2298 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2299 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2303 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2306 shared libraries. (#26414)
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2310 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2312 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2313 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2314 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2315 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2319 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2323 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2325 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2326 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2327 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2328 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2329 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2333 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2336 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2340 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2343 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2344 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2349 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2352 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2356 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2359 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2360 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2361 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2362 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2363 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2365 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2366 remove debian/files properly.
2367 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2368 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2369 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2370 * Removed bogus menu file.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2374 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2377 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2381 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2384 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2385 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2386 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2387 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2388 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2389 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2393 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2396 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2397 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2398 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2399 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2403 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2410 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2413 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2414 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2416 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2417 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2418 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2419 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2420 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2421 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2425 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2428 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2429 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2430 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2431 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2432 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2433 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2434 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2435 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2436 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2437 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2438 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2439 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2440 passed any switches.
2441 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2445 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2448 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2449 at all for a long while.
2450 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2451 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2452 large chunks in the process.
2453 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2454 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2455 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2460 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2463 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2465 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2470 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2473 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2474 that don't always have the same files in them.
2475 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2476 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2477 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2481 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2485 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2486 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2487 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2488 updating 27 man pages.
2489 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2490 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2491 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2492 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2493 programs act on. (#25247)
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2497 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2501 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2502 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2503 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2504 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2505 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2506 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2511 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2518 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2525 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2528 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2532 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2538 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2541 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2542 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2543 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2544 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2545 package by accident.
2546 * Is version 1.0 next?
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2550 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2553 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2554 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2558 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2561 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2562 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2563 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2564 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2565 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2567 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2572 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2575 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2576 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2580 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2583 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2587 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2590 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2591 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2596 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2602 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2605 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2606 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2611 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2617 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2620 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2621 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2622 past week. Thanks, guys!
2624 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2625 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2626 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2627 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2628 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2629 would do in the same situation.
2630 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2631 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2633 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2635 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2636 permissions changed.
2637 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2638 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2639 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2640 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2641 files are treated identically.
2642 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2643 * Minor man page fixes.
2644 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2645 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2646 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2650 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2653 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2654 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2655 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2656 use -X multiple times, too.
2657 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2658 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2662 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2665 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2666 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2670 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2673 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2677 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2680 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2681 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2682 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2683 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2684 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2685 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2686 shape if you're starting a new package.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2690 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2693 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2697 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2700 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2701 because of missing symlinks.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2705 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2711 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2714 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2715 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2716 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2717 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2718 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2720 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2721 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2725 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2727 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2728 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2729 to be changed after the fact :-)
2730 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2734 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2737 no version string after the -V.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2741 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2743 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2744 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2749 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2752 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2756 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2759 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2760 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2761 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2762 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2763 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2764 I always welcome corrections!
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2768 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2774 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2777 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2778 * Documented this new switch.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2782 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2785 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2786 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2787 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2788 no packages use the old behavior.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2792 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2795 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2796 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2800 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2803 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2807 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2813 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2816 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2820 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2823 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2824 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2825 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2829 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2835 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2838 into the source package by accident.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2842 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2845 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2846 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2847 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2848 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2849 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2850 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2855 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2859 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2860 inspired to implement some of it.
2861 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2865 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2868 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2872 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2875 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2876 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2880 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2883 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2884 have done.) (#17598)
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2888 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2894 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2900 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2903 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2907 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2910 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2911 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2915 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2918 argument processor in perl.
2919 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2920 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2921 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2922 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2926 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2929 type directories. (#16933)
2930 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2931 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2932 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2933 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2934 are supported. (#16935)
2935 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2940 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2943 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2947 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2951 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2952 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2953 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2954 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2955 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2956 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2960 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2963 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2964 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2966 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2967 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2968 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2969 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2970 a given package, or -i or -a.
2971 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2972 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2973 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2974 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2975 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2976 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2977 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2978 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2979 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2981 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2982 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2983 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2987 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2990 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2991 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2996 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2999 does not have a section.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3003 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3006 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3007 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3008 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3012 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * Fixed typo #16215.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3018 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3021 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3022 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3023 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3024 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3025 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3030 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3033 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3034 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3035 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3040 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3046 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3052 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3055 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3056 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3057 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3058 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3059 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3060 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3064 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3070 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3073 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3077 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3080 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3081 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3082 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3086 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3089 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3093 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3099 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3102 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3106 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3109 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3113 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3119 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3122 postinst, postrm, etc.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3126 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3132 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3135 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3136 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3137 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3138 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3139 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3143 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3146 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3147 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3151 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3154 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3158 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3161 installing package files into.
3162 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3167 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3171 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3175 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3181 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3184 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3188 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3191 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3192 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3193 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3194 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3198 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3200 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3201 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3202 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3203 multiple binary packages.
3204 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3205 should rebuild them with this version.
3206 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3210 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3213 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3217 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3220 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3224 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3227 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3228 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3229 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3230 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3231 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3232 debian/README.debian.
3233 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3234 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3235 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3236 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3237 in a few situations.)
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3241 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3247 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3253 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3256 * Fixed several man pages.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3260 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3263 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3264 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3268 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3271 is ready for general use.
3272 * Added man pages for all commands.
3273 * Multiple binary package support.
3274 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3275 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3276 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3278 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3279 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3280 auto-installed as parameters.
3281 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3283 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3286 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3287 the package build directory it is to act on.
3288 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3289 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3290 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3294 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3296 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3297 ready to replace debstd.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400