1 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
4 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
8 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
11 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
12 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
17 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
20 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
24 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
30 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
33 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
34 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
38 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
44 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Removing perl warning message.
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
50 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
53 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
54 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
55 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
56 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
57 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
58 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
59 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
60 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
64 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
70 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
77 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
80 debconf-mergetemplate.
81 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
82 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
86 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
89 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
90 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
92 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
93 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
94 mess, as it uses debian/install.
95 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
96 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
97 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
98 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
99 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
100 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
101 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
102 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
103 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
104 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
105 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
107 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
108 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
109 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
110 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
111 course there's -X ..)
112 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
113 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
114 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
116 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
117 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
118 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
119 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
120 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
125 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
127 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
131 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Typo, Closes: #139176
134 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
138 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
144 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
150 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
156 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
162 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
165 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
166 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
167 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
168 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
170 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
171 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
175 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
181 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Typo, Closes: #132454
184 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
188 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
191 upset. Closes: #131322
193 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
195 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
198 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
199 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
200 line, as well as in debian/rules.
201 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
202 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
203 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
204 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
205 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
206 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
207 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
208 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
209 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
210 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
211 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
212 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
214 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
218 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
221 - Better indenting of generated code.
222 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
226 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
230 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
231 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
232 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
233 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
234 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
235 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
236 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
240 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
243 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
247 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
250 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
251 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
252 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
253 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
254 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
255 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
256 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
257 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
258 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
259 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
260 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
261 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
262 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
263 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
264 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
269 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
275 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
278 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
279 * fixed dh_testdir man page
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
283 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Typo, Closes: #122679
286 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
287 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
291 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
297 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
300 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
301 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
302 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
303 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
304 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
309 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
311 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
315 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
318 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
322 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
325 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
330 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Typo, Closes: #114135
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
336 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
339 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
343 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
345 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
349 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
353 Also some indentation fixes.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
357 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
360 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
361 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
362 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
363 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
364 Closes: #106514, #85520
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
368 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Typo, Closes: #104405
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
374 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
380 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
382 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
386 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
392 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
398 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
401 change it in debhelper v4..
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
405 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
411 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
414 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
418 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
420 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
421 is not essential. Closes: #100430
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
425 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
427 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
431 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
434 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
435 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
436 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
437 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
438 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
439 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
440 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
441 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
442 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
443 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
444 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
445 prefixed with ".debhelper")
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
449 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
452 look just like shared libs, but are not.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
456 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
463 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
465 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
466 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
467 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
468 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
469 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
470 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
471 program those options go to. So, for example,
472 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
473 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
474 something complex. Closes: #89311
475 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
479 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
482 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
483 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
484 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
488 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
491 through loop. Closes: #98598
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
495 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Missing semi-colon.
498 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
499 this (dh_* should be called, really).
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
503 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
506 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
507 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
508 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
512 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
514 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
515 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
516 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
520 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
523 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
527 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
530 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
531 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
535 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
538 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
539 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
540 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
544 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
547 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
548 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
549 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
553 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
556 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
560 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
566 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Typo, Closes: #92407
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
572 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
578 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
584 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
587 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
591 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
594 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
595 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
596 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
597 followed. Closes: #85483
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
601 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
603 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
604 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
605 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
609 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
612 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
613 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
614 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
615 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
616 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
617 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
618 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
619 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
620 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
621 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
622 Closes: #88464, #77743
623 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
624 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
625 us to deal with that gracefully.
626 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
628 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
629 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
630 a while, Closes: #51225
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
634 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
640 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
643 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
647 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
651 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
656 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
659 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
660 don't make packlist files.
661 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
662 debhelper coding standards.
663 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
664 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
668 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
671 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
675 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
678 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
679 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
680 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
681 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
682 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
683 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
684 but is mildly deprecated.
685 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
686 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
687 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
688 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
689 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
690 switching to statoverrides..
691 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
692 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
693 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
694 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
695 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
696 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
698 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
699 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
700 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
701 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
702 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
703 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
704 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
705 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
706 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
708 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
709 variable names, pod man pages).
710 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
711 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
712 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
713 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
714 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
715 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
716 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
720 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
726 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
733 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
736 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
740 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
742 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
743 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
744 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
748 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
750 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
751 they were previously ignored.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
755 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
757 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
758 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
762 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
764 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
765 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
766 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
770 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
772 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
776 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
778 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
779 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
783 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
785 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
786 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
787 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
788 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
789 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
790 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
791 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
792 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
793 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
794 it is an obsolete program.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
798 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
800 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
804 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
808 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
810 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
814 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
816 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
818 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
820 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
824 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
830 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
832 * typo: Closes, #78567
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
836 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
842 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
848 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
850 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
851 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
852 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
853 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
854 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
855 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
859 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
862 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
867 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
870 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
871 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
872 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
873 backwards-compatability.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
877 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
879 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
880 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
881 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
882 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
883 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
884 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
885 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
887 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
888 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
889 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
891 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
893 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
894 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
895 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
896 should now be raised to severity important..
897 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
898 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
902 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
905 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
910 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Typo, Closes: #77441
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
916 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Completed the fix from the last version.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
922 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
928 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
930 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
935 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
938 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
939 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
940 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
941 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
945 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
951 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
954 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
955 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
956 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
957 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
958 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
959 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
964 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
967 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
971 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
977 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
980 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
985 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
988 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
989 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
990 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
991 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
995 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
999 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1002 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1005 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1006 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1009 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1011 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1012 the TODO entry about it.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1016 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1023 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1026 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1027 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1031 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1034 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1035 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1036 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1037 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1041 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1047 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1054 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1057 (this appears to be logal).
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1061 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1064 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1065 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1066 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1067 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1071 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1077 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1080 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1081 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1082 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1083 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1087 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1096 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1100 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1107 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1110 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1111 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1112 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1117 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1124 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1130 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1133 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1134 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1135 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1136 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1137 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1138 notice until v2 is complete.
1139 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1140 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1141 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1142 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1143 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1144 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1146 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1147 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1148 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1149 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1153 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1166 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1169 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1173 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1180 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1183 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1184 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1185 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1186 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1191 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1194 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1195 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1196 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1201 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1204 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1205 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1209 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1212 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1219 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1223 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1230 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1233 depend on the build and install targets.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1237 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1240 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1244 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1251 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1257 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1263 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1266 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1267 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1268 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1269 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1270 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1271 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1273 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1274 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1275 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1276 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1277 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1278 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1279 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1283 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1289 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1295 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1298 right place. Closes: #55065
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1302 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1309 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1312 * Copyright date updates.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1316 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1319 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1324 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1330 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1337 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1343 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1349 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1355 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1358 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1359 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1360 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1361 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1362 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1363 bits until all files have been registered.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1367 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_installmanpages:
1370 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1371 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1372 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1373 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1374 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1375 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1376 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1377 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1378 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1379 otherwise change the result at all.
1381 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1382 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1383 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1384 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1385 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1390 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1396 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1399 act on files that don't exist.
1400 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1401 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1402 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1404 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1405 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1406 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1407 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1411 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1417 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1423 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1426 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1430 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1433 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1435 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1436 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1437 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1441 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1444 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1445 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1446 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1447 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1448 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1449 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1450 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1452 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1454 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1458 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1465 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1471 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1477 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1480 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1484 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1490 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1496 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1499 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1500 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1501 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1502 I made some changes, though:
1503 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1504 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1505 that is a clear violation of policy.
1506 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1507 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1508 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1509 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1510 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1511 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1512 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1513 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1514 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1516 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1520 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1526 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1529 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1533 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1536 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1537 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1542 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1548 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1555 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1558 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1559 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1560 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1561 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1562 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1563 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1564 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1568 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1574 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1578 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1579 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1583 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1589 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1592 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1596 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1599 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1600 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1604 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1606 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1611 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1615 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1619 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1622 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1623 for the dependancies to be generated.
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1627 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1630 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1634 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1637 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1638 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1639 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1644 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1647 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1648 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1652 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1658 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1664 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1667 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1671 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1677 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1680 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1681 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1682 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1683 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1684 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1685 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1686 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1687 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1688 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1689 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1690 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1691 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1695 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1698 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1699 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1701 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1702 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1703 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1704 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1705 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1706 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1708 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1709 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1713 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1716 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1720 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1727 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1730 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1735 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1738 for building debhelper.
1739 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1743 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1750 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1753 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1757 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1760 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1761 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1762 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1763 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1764 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1765 it's always available.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1772 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1773 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1774 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1778 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1781 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1782 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1786 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1792 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1795 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1799 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1805 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1808 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1809 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1810 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1814 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1817 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1822 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1825 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1826 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1828 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1829 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1833 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1839 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1845 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1848 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1852 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1855 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1856 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1858 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1862 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1865 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1866 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1867 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1871 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1874 things if CDPATH is set.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1878 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1884 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1887 seems to make sense for the transition.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1891 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1894 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1899 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1902 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1903 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1907 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1910 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1914 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1917 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1918 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1919 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1920 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1924 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1930 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1933 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1934 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1935 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1936 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1937 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1938 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1939 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1940 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1941 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1942 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1947 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1950 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1951 * README: mention doc/v2
1952 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1953 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1957 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1959 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1960 be using this script RSN.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1964 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1967 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1968 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1969 more than 1 init script.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1973 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1976 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1980 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Changed perl version detection.
1983 * Changed call to find.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1987 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1990 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1992 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1997 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Really include dh_installpam.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2003 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2006 * Wrote man page for same.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2010 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2013 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2014 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2019 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2026 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2029 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2030 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2031 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2032 x bit was being set!
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2036 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2039 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2040 well. (Closes: 38900)
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2044 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2047 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2048 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2052 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2058 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2065 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2071 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2074 help from Julian Gilbey.
2075 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2076 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2077 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2078 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2079 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2080 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2081 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2086 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2092 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2099 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2105 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2111 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2114 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2118 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2121 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2125 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2128 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2132 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2138 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2141 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2145 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2151 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2157 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2160 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2161 may be deleted. (#35845)
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2165 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Various man page enhancements.
2168 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2173 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2176 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2177 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2181 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2184 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2185 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2186 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2188 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2189 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2194 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2200 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Another very minor typo fix.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2206 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Very minor typo fix.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2212 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2215 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2216 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2220 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2226 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2229 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2230 variables properly (#34850).
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2234 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2240 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2243 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2244 (automatically generated by build process).
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2248 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2250 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2254 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2257 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2258 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2260 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2264 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2267 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2271 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * README: minor typo fix.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2277 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2280 leave it at that. :-)
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2284 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2290 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2296 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2299 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2300 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2301 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2305 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2308 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2312 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2315 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2319 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2322 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2323 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2324 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2325 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2329 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2332 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2333 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2334 Craig Small for spotting this.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2338 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2341 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2342 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2346 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2352 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2355 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2359 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2361 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2362 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2363 working on the last version of debhelper.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2367 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2370 being made. (#23255)
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2374 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2380 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2383 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2387 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2390 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2391 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2392 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2393 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2397 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2400 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2401 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2402 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2403 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2405 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2406 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2408 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2413 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2419 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2425 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2428 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2429 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2430 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2431 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2432 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2433 suidregister actually supports it.
2434 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2435 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2439 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2446 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2449 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2450 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2451 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2452 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2453 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2454 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2455 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2459 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2461 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2462 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2466 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2469 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2470 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2471 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2472 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2476 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2479 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2481 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2482 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2483 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2484 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2485 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2486 effect, either. (#30118)
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2490 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2496 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2499 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2500 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2504 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2510 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2513 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2514 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2515 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2516 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2520 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2523 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2524 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2528 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2534 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2537 packages, painlessly.
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2541 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2547 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2553 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2559 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * The perl conversion is complete.
2563 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2565 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2566 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2567 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2572 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2575 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2576 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2577 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2581 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2584 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2586 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2588 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2589 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2593 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2596 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2597 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2601 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2607 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2610 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2611 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2612 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2613 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2614 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2618 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2621 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2622 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2623 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2624 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2628 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2631 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2635 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2638 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2639 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2640 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2641 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2642 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2643 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2644 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2645 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2649 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2655 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2658 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2659 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2660 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2665 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2668 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2672 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2675 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2679 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2682 sections of shared libraries.
2683 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2684 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2685 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2686 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2687 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2688 things you don't want them to.
2689 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2690 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2694 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2697 shared libraries. (#26414)
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2701 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2703 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2704 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2705 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2706 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2710 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2714 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2716 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2717 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2718 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2719 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2720 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2724 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2727 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2731 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2734 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2735 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2740 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2743 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2747 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2750 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2751 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2752 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2753 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2754 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2756 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2757 remove debian/files properly.
2758 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2759 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2760 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2761 * Removed bogus menu file.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2765 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2768 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2772 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2775 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2776 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2777 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2778 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2779 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2780 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2784 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2787 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2788 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2789 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2790 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2794 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2801 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2804 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2805 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2807 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2808 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2809 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2810 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2811 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2812 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2816 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2819 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2820 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2821 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2822 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2823 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2824 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2825 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2826 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2827 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2828 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2829 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2830 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2831 passed any switches.
2832 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2836 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2839 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2840 at all for a long while.
2841 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2842 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2843 large chunks in the process.
2844 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2845 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2846 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2851 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2854 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2856 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2861 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2864 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2865 that don't always have the same files in them.
2866 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2867 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2868 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2872 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2876 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2877 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2878 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2879 updating 27 man pages.
2880 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2881 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2882 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2883 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2884 programs act on. (#25247)
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2888 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2892 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2893 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2894 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2895 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2896 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2897 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2902 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2909 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2916 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2919 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2923 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2929 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2932 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2933 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2934 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2935 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2936 package by accident.
2937 * Is version 1.0 next?
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2941 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2944 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2945 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2949 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2952 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2953 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2954 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2955 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2956 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2958 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2963 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2966 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2967 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2971 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2974 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2978 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2981 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2982 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2987 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2993 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2996 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2997 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3002 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3008 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3011 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3012 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3013 past week. Thanks, guys!
3015 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3016 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3017 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3018 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3019 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3020 would do in the same situation.
3021 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3022 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3024 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3026 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3027 permissions changed.
3028 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3029 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3030 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3031 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3032 files are treated identically.
3033 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3034 * Minor man page fixes.
3035 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3036 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3037 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3041 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3044 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3045 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3046 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3047 use -X multiple times, too.
3048 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3049 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3053 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3056 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3057 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3061 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3064 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3068 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3071 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3072 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3073 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3074 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3075 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3076 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3077 shape if you're starting a new package.
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3081 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3084 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3088 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3091 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3092 because of missing symlinks.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3096 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3102 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3105 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3106 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3107 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3108 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3109 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3111 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3112 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3116 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3118 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3119 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3120 to be changed after the fact :-)
3121 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3125 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3128 no version string after the -V.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3132 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3134 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3135 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3140 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3143 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3147 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3150 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3151 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3152 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3153 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3154 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3155 I always welcome corrections!
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3159 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3165 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3168 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3169 * Documented this new switch.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3173 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3176 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3177 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3178 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3179 no packages use the old behavior.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3183 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3186 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3187 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3191 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3194 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3198 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3204 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3207 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3211 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3214 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3215 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3216 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3220 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3226 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3229 into the source package by accident.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3233 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3236 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3237 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3238 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3239 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3240 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3241 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3246 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3250 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3251 inspired to implement some of it.
3252 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3256 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3259 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3263 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3266 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3267 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3271 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3274 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3275 have done.) (#17598)
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3279 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3285 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3291 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3294 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3298 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3301 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3302 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3306 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3309 argument processor in perl.
3310 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3311 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3312 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3313 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3317 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3320 type directories. (#16933)
3321 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3322 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3323 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3324 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3325 are supported. (#16935)
3326 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3331 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3334 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3338 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3342 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3343 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3344 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3345 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3346 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3347 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3351 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3354 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3355 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3357 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3358 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3359 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3360 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3361 a given package, or -i or -a.
3362 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3363 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3364 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3365 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3366 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3367 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3368 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3369 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3370 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3372 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3373 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3374 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3378 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3381 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3382 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3387 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3390 does not have a section.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3394 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3397 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3398 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3399 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3403 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * Fixed typo #16215.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3409 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3412 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3413 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3414 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3415 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3416 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3421 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3424 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3425 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3426 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3431 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3437 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3443 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3446 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3447 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3448 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3449 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3450 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3451 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3455 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3461 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3464 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3468 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3471 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3472 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3473 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3477 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3480 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3484 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3490 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3493 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3497 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3500 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3504 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3510 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3513 postinst, postrm, etc.
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3517 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3523 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3526 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3527 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3528 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3529 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3530 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3534 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3537 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3538 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3542 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3545 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3549 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3552 installing package files into.
3553 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3558 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3562 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3566 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3572 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3575 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3579 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3582 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3583 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3584 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3585 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3589 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3591 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3592 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3593 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3594 multiple binary packages.
3595 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3596 should rebuild them with this version.
3597 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3601 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3604 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3608 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3611 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3615 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3618 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3619 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3620 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3621 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3622 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3623 debian/README.debian.
3624 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3625 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3626 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3627 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3628 in a few situations.)
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3632 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3638 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3644 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3647 * Fixed several man pages.
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3651 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3654 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3655 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3659 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3662 is ready for general use.
3663 * Added man pages for all commands.
3664 * Multiple binary package support.
3665 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3666 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3667 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3669 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3670 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3671 auto-installed as parameters.
3672 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3674 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3677 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3678 the package build directory it is to act on.
3679 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3680 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3681 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3685 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3687 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3688 ready to replace debstd.
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400