1 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
4 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
8 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
11 but occasionally right and necessary.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
15 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
18 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
19 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
20 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
21 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
22 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937a
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
26 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
29 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
31 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
32 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
33 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
34 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
35 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
36 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
37 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
38 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
39 postinst scripts for udebs.
40 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
44 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
47 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
49 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
50 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
54 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
60 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
67 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
74 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
77 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
81 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
84 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
88 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
91 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
94 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
95 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
99 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
105 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
108 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
112 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
115 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
116 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
117 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
119 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
121 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
122 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
123 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
127 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
129 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
130 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
135 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
138 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
139 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
140 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
145 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
151 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
157 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
160 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
161 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
162 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
163 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
164 associated -dbg packages.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
168 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
171 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
175 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
178 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
182 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
185 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
189 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
192 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
197 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Typo. Closes: #207999
200 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
204 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
207 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
212 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
215 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
219 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
223 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
224 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
225 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
226 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
227 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
228 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
229 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
230 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
231 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
232 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
236 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
239 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
244 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
247 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
248 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
252 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
255 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
256 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
261 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
264 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
268 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
271 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
275 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
278 out section number. Closes: #204731
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
282 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
289 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
295 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
301 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Typo, Closes: #203907
304 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
305 removal. Closes: #204286
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
309 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
312 renaming. Closes: #203548
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
316 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
319 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
320 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
324 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
330 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
336 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
342 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
345 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
346 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
347 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
351 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
354 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
355 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
359 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
365 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
372 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
375 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
380 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
383 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
387 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
389 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
390 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
392 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
393 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
397 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
400 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
405 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
408 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
412 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
418 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
420 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
424 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
427 it break hard links (see #188663).
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
431 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
434 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
438 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
440 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
444 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
448 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
449 debconf-mergetemplates
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
453 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
456 pod2man. Closes: #184013
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
460 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
463 * Typo, Closes: #183267
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
467 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
470 * Update debhelper(1).
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
474 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
476 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
477 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
478 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
479 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
480 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
481 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
485 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
488 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
489 the shell. Closes: #178524
490 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
494 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
497 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
501 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
504 undocumented.7 links anymore.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
508 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
510 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
511 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
512 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
513 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
514 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
519 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
522 files from installation.
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
526 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
529 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
530 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
534 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
537 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
541 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
544 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
548 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
554 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
560 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
564 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
565 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
567 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
571 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
574 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
575 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
576 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
577 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
581 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
583 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
584 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
588 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
591 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
592 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
596 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
600 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
605 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
611 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
613 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
615 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
616 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
617 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
622 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
625 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
626 practice. Closes: #163303
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
630 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
636 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
638 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
643 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
645 * The "reverse hangover" release.
646 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
648 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
649 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
650 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
651 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
652 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
656 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
659 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
664 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
670 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
677 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
680 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
685 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
687 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
691 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
697 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
703 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
710 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
713 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
714 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
715 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
716 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
721 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Typo, Closes: #155323
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
727 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
734 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
737 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
738 * Removed dh_installxaw.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
742 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
745 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
746 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
747 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
748 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
749 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
753 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
756 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
758 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
763 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
765 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
766 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
770 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
773 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
774 right thing. Closes: #150644
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
778 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
781 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
785 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
787 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
792 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
795 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
796 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
801 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
807 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
810 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
814 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
817 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
818 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
823 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
826 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
830 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
836 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
839 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
840 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
844 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
850 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
852 * Removing perl warning message.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
856 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
859 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
860 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
861 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
862 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
863 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
864 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
865 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
866 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
870 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
876 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
883 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
886 debconf-mergetemplate.
887 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
888 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
892 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
895 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
896 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
897 dh_install, which ...
898 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
899 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
900 mess, as it uses debian/install.
901 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
902 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
903 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
904 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
905 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
906 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
907 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
908 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
909 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
910 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
911 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
913 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
914 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
915 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
916 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
917 course there's -X ..)
918 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
919 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
920 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
922 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
923 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
924 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
925 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
926 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
931 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
937 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Typo, Closes: #139176
940 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
944 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
950 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
956 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
962 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
968 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
971 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
972 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
973 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
974 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
976 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
977 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
981 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
987 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Typo, Closes: #132454
990 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
994 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
997 upset. Closes: #131322
999 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1001 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1004 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1005 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1006 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1007 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1008 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1009 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1010 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1011 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1012 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1013 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1014 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1015 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1016 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1017 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1018 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1020 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1024 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1027 - Better indenting of generated code.
1028 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1032 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1036 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1037 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1038 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1039 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1040 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1041 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1042 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1046 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1049 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1053 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1056 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1057 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1058 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1059 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1060 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1061 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1062 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1063 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1064 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1065 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1066 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1067 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1068 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1069 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1070 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1075 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1081 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1084 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1085 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1089 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1092 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1093 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1097 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1103 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1106 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1107 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1108 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1109 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1110 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1115 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1121 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1124 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1128 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1131 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1136 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1142 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1145 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1149 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1155 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1159 Also some indentation fixes.
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1163 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1166 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1167 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1168 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1169 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1170 Closes: #106514, #85520
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1174 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1180 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1186 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1192 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1198 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1204 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1207 change it in debhelper v4..
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1211 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1217 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1220 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1224 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1227 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1231 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1237 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1240 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1241 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1242 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1243 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1244 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1245 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1246 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1247 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1248 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1249 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1250 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1251 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1255 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1258 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1262 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1269 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1272 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1273 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1274 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1275 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1276 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1277 program those options go to. So, for example,
1278 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1279 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1280 something complex. Closes: #89311
1281 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1285 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1288 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1289 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1290 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1294 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1297 through loop. Closes: #98598
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1301 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Missing semi-colon.
1304 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1305 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1309 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1312 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1313 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1314 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1318 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1321 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1322 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1326 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1329 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1333 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1336 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1337 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1341 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1344 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1345 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1346 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1350 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1353 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1354 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1355 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1359 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1362 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1366 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1372 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1378 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1384 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1390 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1393 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1397 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1400 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1401 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1402 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1403 followed. Closes: #85483
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1407 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1409 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1410 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1411 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1415 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1418 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1419 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1420 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1421 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1422 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1423 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1424 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1425 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1426 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1427 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1428 Closes: #88464, #77743
1429 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1430 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1431 us to deal with that gracefully.
1432 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1434 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1435 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1436 a while, Closes: #51225
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1440 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1446 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1449 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1453 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1457 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1462 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1465 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1466 don't make packlist files.
1467 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1468 debhelper coding standards.
1469 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1470 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1474 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1477 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1481 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1484 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1485 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1486 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1487 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1488 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1489 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1490 but is mildly deprecated.
1491 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1492 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1493 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1494 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1495 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1496 switching to statoverrides..
1497 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1498 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1499 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1500 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1501 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1502 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1504 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1505 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1506 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1507 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1508 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1509 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1510 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1511 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1512 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1514 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1515 variable names, pod man pages).
1516 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1517 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1518 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1519 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1520 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1521 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1522 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1526 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1532 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1539 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1542 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1546 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1548 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1549 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1550 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1554 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1556 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1557 they were previously ignored.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1561 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1563 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1564 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1568 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1570 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1571 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1572 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1576 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1578 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1582 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1584 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1585 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1589 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1591 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1592 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1593 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1594 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1595 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1596 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1597 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1598 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1599 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1600 it is an obsolete program.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1604 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1606 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1610 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1614 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1616 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1620 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1622 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1624 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1626 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1630 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1636 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * typo: Closes, #78567
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1642 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1648 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1654 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1657 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1658 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1659 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1660 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1661 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1665 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1668 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1673 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1676 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1677 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1678 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1679 backwards-compatability.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1683 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1686 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1687 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1688 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1689 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1690 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1691 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1693 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1694 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1695 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1697 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1699 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1700 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1701 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1702 should now be raised to severity important..
1703 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1704 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1708 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1711 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1716 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1722 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1728 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1734 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1741 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1744 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1745 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1746 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1747 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1751 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1757 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1760 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1761 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1762 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1763 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1764 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1765 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1770 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1773 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1777 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1783 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1786 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1791 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1794 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1795 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1796 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1797 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1801 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1805 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1808 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1811 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1812 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1815 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1817 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1818 the TODO entry about it.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1822 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1829 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1832 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1833 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1837 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1840 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1841 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1842 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1843 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1847 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1853 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1860 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1863 (this appears to be logal).
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1867 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1870 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1871 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1872 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1873 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1883 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1886 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1887 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1888 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1889 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1893 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1899 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1902 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1913 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1916 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1917 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1918 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1923 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1930 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1939 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1940 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1941 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1942 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1943 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1944 notice until v2 is complete.
1945 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1946 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1947 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1948 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1949 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1950 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1952 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1953 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1954 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1955 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1959 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1965 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1972 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1975 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1979 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1986 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1989 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1990 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1991 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1992 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1997 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2000 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2001 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2002 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2007 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2010 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2011 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2015 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2018 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2022 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2025 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2029 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2036 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2039 depend on the build and install targets.
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2043 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2046 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2050 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2057 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2063 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2069 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2072 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2073 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2074 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2075 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2076 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2077 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2079 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2080 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2081 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2082 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2083 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2084 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2085 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2089 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2095 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2101 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2104 right place. Closes: #55065
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2108 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2115 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2118 * Copyright date updates.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2122 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2125 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2130 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2136 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2143 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2149 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2155 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2161 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2164 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2165 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2166 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2167 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2168 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2169 bits until all files have been registered.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2173 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_installmanpages:
2176 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2177 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2178 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2179 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2180 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2181 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2182 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2183 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2184 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2185 otherwise change the result at all.
2187 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2188 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2189 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2190 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2191 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2196 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2202 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2205 act on files that don't exist.
2206 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2207 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2208 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2210 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2211 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2212 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2213 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2217 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2223 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2229 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2232 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2236 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2239 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2241 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2242 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2243 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2247 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2250 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2251 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2252 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2253 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2254 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2255 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2256 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2258 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2260 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2264 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2271 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2277 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2283 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2286 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2290 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2296 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2302 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2305 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2306 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2307 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2308 I made some changes, though:
2309 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2310 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2311 that is a clear violation of policy.
2312 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2313 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2314 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2315 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2316 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2317 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2318 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2319 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2320 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2322 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2326 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2332 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2335 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2339 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2342 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2343 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2348 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2354 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2361 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2364 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2365 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2366 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2367 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2368 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2369 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2370 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2374 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2380 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2384 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2385 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2389 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2395 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2398 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2402 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2405 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2406 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2410 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2412 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2417 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2421 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2425 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2428 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2429 for the dependancies to be generated.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2433 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2436 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2440 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2443 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2444 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2445 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2450 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2453 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2454 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2458 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2464 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2470 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2473 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2477 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2483 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2486 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2487 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2488 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2489 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2490 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2491 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2492 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2493 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2494 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2495 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2496 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2497 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2501 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2504 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2505 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2507 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2508 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2509 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2510 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2511 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2512 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2514 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2515 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2519 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2522 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2526 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2533 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2536 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2541 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2544 for building debhelper.
2545 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2549 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2556 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2559 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2563 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2566 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2567 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2568 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2569 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2570 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2571 it's always available.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2575 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2578 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2579 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2580 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2584 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2587 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2588 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2592 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2598 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2601 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2605 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2611 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2614 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2615 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2616 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2620 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2623 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2628 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2631 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2632 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2634 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2635 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2639 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2645 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2651 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2654 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2658 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2661 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2662 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2664 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2668 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2671 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2672 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2673 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2677 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2680 things if CDPATH is set.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2684 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2690 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2693 seems to make sense for the transition.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2697 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2700 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2705 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2708 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2709 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2713 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2716 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2720 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2723 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2724 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2725 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2726 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2730 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2736 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2739 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2740 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2741 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2742 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2743 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2744 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2745 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2746 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2747 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2748 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2753 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2756 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2757 * README: mention doc/v2
2758 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2759 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2763 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2765 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2766 be using this script RSN.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2770 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2773 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2774 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2775 more than 1 init script.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2779 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2782 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2786 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Changed perl version detection.
2789 * Changed call to find.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2793 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2796 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2798 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2803 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Really include dh_installpam.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2809 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2812 * Wrote man page for same.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2816 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2819 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2820 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2825 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2832 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2835 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2836 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2837 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2838 x bit was being set!
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2842 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2845 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2846 well. (Closes: 38900)
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2850 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2853 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2854 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2858 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2864 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2871 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2877 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2880 help from Julian Gilbey.
2881 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2882 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2883 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2884 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2885 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2886 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2887 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2892 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2898 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2905 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2911 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2917 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2920 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2924 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2927 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2931 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2934 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2938 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2944 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2947 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2951 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2957 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2963 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2966 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2967 may be deleted. (#35845)
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2971 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Various man page enhancements.
2974 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2979 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2982 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2983 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2987 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2990 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2991 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2992 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2994 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2995 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3000 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3006 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Another very minor typo fix.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3012 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * Very minor typo fix.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3018 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3021 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3022 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3026 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3032 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3035 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3036 variables properly (#34850).
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3040 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3046 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3049 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3050 (automatically generated by build process).
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3054 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3056 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3060 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3063 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3064 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3066 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3070 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3073 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3077 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * README: minor typo fix.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3083 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3086 leave it at that. :-)
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3090 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3096 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3102 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3105 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3106 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3107 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3111 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3114 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3118 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3121 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3125 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3128 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3129 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3130 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3131 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3135 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3138 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3139 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3140 Craig Small for spotting this.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3144 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3147 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3148 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3152 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3158 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3161 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3165 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3167 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3168 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3169 working on the last version of debhelper.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3173 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3176 being made. (#23255)
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3180 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3186 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3189 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3193 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3196 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3197 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3198 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3199 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3203 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3206 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3207 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3208 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3209 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3211 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3212 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3214 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3219 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3225 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3231 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3234 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3235 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3236 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3237 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3238 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3239 suidregister actually supports it.
3240 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3241 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3245 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3252 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3255 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3256 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3257 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3258 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3259 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3260 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3261 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3265 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3267 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3268 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3272 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3275 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3276 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3277 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3278 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3282 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3285 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3287 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3288 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3289 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3290 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3291 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3292 effect, either. (#30118)
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3296 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3302 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3305 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3306 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3310 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3316 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3319 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3320 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3321 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3322 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3326 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3329 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3330 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3334 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3340 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3343 packages, painlessly.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3347 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3353 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3359 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3365 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * The perl conversion is complete.
3369 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3371 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3372 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3373 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3378 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3381 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3382 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3383 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3387 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3390 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3392 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3394 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3395 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3399 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3402 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3403 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3407 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3413 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3416 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3417 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3418 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3419 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3420 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3424 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3427 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3428 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3429 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3430 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3434 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3437 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3441 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3444 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3445 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3446 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3447 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3448 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3449 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3450 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3451 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3455 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3461 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3464 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3465 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3466 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3471 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3474 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3478 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3481 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3485 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3488 sections of shared libraries.
3489 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3490 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3491 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3492 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3493 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3494 things you don't want them to.
3495 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3496 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3500 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3503 shared libraries. (#26414)
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3507 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3509 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3510 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3511 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3512 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3516 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3520 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3522 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3523 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3524 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3525 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3526 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3530 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3533 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3537 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3540 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3541 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3546 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3549 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3553 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3556 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3557 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3558 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3559 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3560 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3562 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3563 remove debian/files properly.
3564 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3565 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3566 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3567 * Removed bogus menu file.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3571 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3574 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3578 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3581 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3582 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3583 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3584 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3585 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3586 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3590 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3593 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3594 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3595 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3596 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3600 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3607 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3610 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3611 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3613 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3614 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3615 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3616 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3617 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3618 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3622 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3625 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3626 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3627 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3628 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3629 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3630 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3631 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3632 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3633 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3634 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3635 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3636 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3637 passed any switches.
3638 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3642 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3645 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3646 at all for a long while.
3647 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3648 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3649 large chunks in the process.
3650 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3651 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3652 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3657 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3660 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3662 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3667 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3670 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3671 that don't always have the same files in them.
3672 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3673 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3674 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3678 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3682 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3683 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3684 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3685 updating 27 man pages.
3686 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3687 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3688 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3689 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3690 programs act on. (#25247)
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3694 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3698 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3699 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3700 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3701 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3702 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3703 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3708 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3715 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3722 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3725 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3729 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3735 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3738 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3739 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3740 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3741 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3742 package by accident.
3743 * Is version 1.0 next?
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3747 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3750 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3751 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3755 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3757 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3758 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3759 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3760 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3761 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3762 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3764 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3769 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3772 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3773 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3777 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3780 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3784 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3787 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3788 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3793 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3799 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3802 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3803 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3808 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3814 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3817 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3818 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3819 past week. Thanks, guys!
3821 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3822 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3823 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3824 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3825 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3826 would do in the same situation.
3827 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3828 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3830 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3832 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3833 permissions changed.
3834 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3835 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3836 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3837 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3838 files are treated identically.
3839 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3840 * Minor man page fixes.
3841 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3842 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3843 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3847 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3850 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3851 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3852 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3853 use -X multiple times, too.
3854 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3855 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3859 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3862 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3863 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3867 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3870 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3874 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3877 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3878 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3879 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3880 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3881 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3882 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3883 shape if you're starting a new package.
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3887 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3890 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3894 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3897 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3898 because of missing symlinks.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3902 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3908 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3911 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3912 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3913 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3914 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3915 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3917 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3918 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3922 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3924 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3925 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3926 to be changed after the fact :-)
3927 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3931 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3933 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3934 no version string after the -V.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3938 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3940 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3941 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3946 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3949 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3953 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3956 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3957 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3958 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3959 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3960 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3961 I always welcome corrections!
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3965 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3971 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3974 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3975 * Documented this new switch.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3979 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3982 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3983 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3984 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3985 no packages use the old behavior.
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3989 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3992 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3993 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3997 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4000 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4004 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4010 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4013 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4017 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4020 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4021 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4022 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4026 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4032 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4035 into the source package by accident.
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4039 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4042 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4043 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4044 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4045 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4046 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4047 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4052 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4056 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4057 inspired to implement some of it.
4058 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4062 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4065 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4069 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4072 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4073 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4077 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4080 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4081 have done.) (#17598)
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4085 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4091 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4097 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4100 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4104 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4107 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4108 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4112 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4115 argument processor in perl.
4116 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4117 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4118 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4119 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4123 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4126 type directories. (#16933)
4127 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4128 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4129 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4130 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4131 are supported. (#16935)
4132 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4137 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4140 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4144 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4148 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4149 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4150 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4151 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4152 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4153 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4157 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4160 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4161 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4163 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4164 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4165 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4166 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4167 a given package, or -i or -a.
4168 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4169 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4170 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4171 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4172 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4173 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4174 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4175 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4176 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4178 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4179 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4180 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4184 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4187 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4188 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4193 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4196 does not have a section.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4200 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4203 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4204 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4205 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4209 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * Fixed typo #16215.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4215 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4218 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4219 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4220 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4221 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4222 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4227 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4230 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4231 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4232 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4237 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4243 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4249 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4252 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4253 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4254 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4255 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4256 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4257 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4261 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4267 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4270 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4274 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4277 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4278 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4279 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4283 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4286 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4290 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4296 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4299 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4303 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4306 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4310 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4316 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4319 postinst, postrm, etc.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4323 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4329 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4332 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4333 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4334 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4335 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4336 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4340 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4343 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4344 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4348 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4351 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4355 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4358 installing package files into.
4359 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4364 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4368 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4372 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4378 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4381 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4385 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4388 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4389 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4390 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4391 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4395 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4397 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4398 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4399 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4400 multiple binary packages.
4401 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4402 should rebuild them with this version.
4403 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4407 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4410 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4414 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4417 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4421 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4423 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4424 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4425 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4426 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4427 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4428 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4429 debian/README.debian.
4430 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4431 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4432 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4433 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4434 in a few situations.)
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4438 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4444 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4450 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4453 * Fixed several man pages.
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4457 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4460 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4461 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4465 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4468 is ready for general use.
4469 * Added man pages for all commands.
4470 * Multiple binary package support.
4471 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4472 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4473 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4475 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4476 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4477 auto-installed as parameters.
4478 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4480 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4483 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4484 the package build directory it is to act on.
4485 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4486 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4487 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4491 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4493 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4494 ready to replace debstd.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400