1 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
4 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
9 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
15 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
22 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
25 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
30 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
36 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
42 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
48 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
55 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
58 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
59 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
60 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
61 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
66 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Typo, Closes: #155323
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
72 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
79 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
82 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
83 * Removed dh_installxaw.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
87 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
90 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
91 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
92 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
93 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
94 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
98 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
101 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
103 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
108 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
110 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
111 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
115 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
118 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
119 right thing. Closes: #150644
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
123 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
130 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
132 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
137 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
140 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
141 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
146 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
152 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
155 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
159 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
162 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
163 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
168 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
171 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
175 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
181 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
184 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
185 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
189 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
195 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Removing perl warning message.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
201 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
204 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
205 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
206 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
207 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
208 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
209 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
210 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
211 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
215 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
221 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
228 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
231 debconf-mergetemplate.
232 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
233 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
237 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
240 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
241 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
242 dh_install, which ...
243 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
244 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
245 mess, as it uses debian/install.
246 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
247 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
248 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
249 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
250 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
251 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
252 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
253 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
254 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
255 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
256 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
258 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
259 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
260 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
261 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
262 course there's -X ..)
263 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
264 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
265 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
267 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
268 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
269 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
270 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
271 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
276 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
282 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
284 * Typo, Closes: #139176
285 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
289 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
295 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
301 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
307 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
313 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
316 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
317 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
318 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
319 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
321 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
322 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
326 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
332 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Typo, Closes: #132454
335 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
339 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
342 upset. Closes: #131322
344 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
346 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
349 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
350 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
351 line, as well as in debian/rules.
352 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
353 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
354 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
355 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
356 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
357 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
358 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
359 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
360 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
361 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
362 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
363 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
365 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
369 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
372 - Better indenting of generated code.
373 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
377 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
381 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
382 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
383 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
384 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
385 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
386 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
387 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
391 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
394 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
398 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
401 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
402 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
403 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
404 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
405 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
406 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
407 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
408 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
409 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
410 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
411 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
412 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
413 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
414 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
415 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
420 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
426 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
429 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
430 * fixed dh_testdir man page
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
434 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Typo, Closes: #122679
437 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
438 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
442 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
448 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
451 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
452 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
453 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
454 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
455 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
460 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
462 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
466 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
469 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
473 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
476 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
481 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Typo, Closes: #114135
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
487 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
490 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
494 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
500 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
502 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
504 Also some indentation fixes.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
508 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
511 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
512 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
513 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
514 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
515 Closes: #106514, #85520
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
519 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Typo, Closes: #104405
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
525 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
531 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
533 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
537 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
543 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
549 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
552 change it in debhelper v4..
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
556 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
562 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
565 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
569 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
572 is not essential. Closes: #100430
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
576 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
582 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
585 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
586 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
587 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
588 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
589 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
590 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
591 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
592 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
593 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
594 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
595 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
596 prefixed with ".debhelper")
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
600 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
602 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
603 look just like shared libs, but are not.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
607 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
614 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
617 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
618 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
619 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
620 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
621 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
622 program those options go to. So, for example,
623 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
624 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
625 something complex. Closes: #89311
626 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
630 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
633 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
634 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
635 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
639 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
642 through loop. Closes: #98598
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
646 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Missing semi-colon.
649 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
650 this (dh_* should be called, really).
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
654 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
657 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
658 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
659 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
663 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
666 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
667 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
671 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
674 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
678 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
681 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
682 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
686 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
689 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
690 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
691 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
695 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
698 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
699 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
700 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
704 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
707 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
711 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
717 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Typo, Closes: #92407
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
723 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
729 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
735 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
738 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
742 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
745 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
746 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
747 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
748 followed. Closes: #85483
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
752 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
754 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
755 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
756 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
760 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
763 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
764 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
765 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
766 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
767 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
768 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
769 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
770 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
771 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
772 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
773 Closes: #88464, #77743
774 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
775 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
776 us to deal with that gracefully.
777 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
779 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
780 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
781 a while, Closes: #51225
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
785 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
791 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
794 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
798 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
800 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
802 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
807 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
810 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
811 don't make packlist files.
812 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
813 debhelper coding standards.
814 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
815 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
819 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
822 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
826 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
829 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
830 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
831 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
832 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
833 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
834 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
835 but is mildly deprecated.
836 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
837 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
838 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
839 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
840 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
841 switching to statoverrides..
842 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
843 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
844 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
845 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
846 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
847 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
849 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
850 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
851 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
852 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
853 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
854 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
855 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
856 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
857 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
859 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
860 variable names, pod man pages).
861 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
862 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
863 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
864 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
865 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
866 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
867 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
871 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
877 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
884 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
887 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
891 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
893 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
894 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
895 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
899 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
901 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
902 they were previously ignored.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
906 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
908 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
909 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
913 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
915 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
916 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
917 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
921 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
923 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
927 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
929 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
930 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
934 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
936 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
937 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
938 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
939 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
940 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
941 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
942 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
943 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
944 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
945 it is an obsolete program.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
949 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
951 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
955 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
959 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
961 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
965 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
967 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
969 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
971 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
975 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
981 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
983 * typo: Closes, #78567
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
987 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
993 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
999 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1002 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1003 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1004 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1005 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1006 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1010 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1013 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1018 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1021 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1022 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1023 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1024 backwards-compatability.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1028 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1031 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1032 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1033 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1034 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1035 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1036 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1038 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1039 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1040 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1042 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1044 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1045 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1046 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1047 should now be raised to severity important..
1048 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1049 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1053 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1056 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1061 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1067 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1073 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1079 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1086 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1089 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1090 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1091 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1092 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1096 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1102 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1105 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1106 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1107 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1108 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1109 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1110 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1115 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1118 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1122 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1128 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1131 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1136 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1139 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1140 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1141 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1142 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1146 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1150 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1153 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1156 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1157 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1160 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1162 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1163 the TODO entry about it.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1167 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1174 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1177 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1178 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1182 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1185 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1186 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1187 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1188 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1192 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1198 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1205 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1208 (this appears to be logal).
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1212 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1215 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1216 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1217 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1218 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1222 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1228 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1231 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1232 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1233 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1234 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1238 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1244 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1247 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1251 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1258 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1261 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1262 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1263 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1268 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1275 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1281 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1284 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1285 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1286 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1287 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1288 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1289 notice until v2 is complete.
1290 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1291 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1292 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1293 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1294 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1295 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1297 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1298 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1299 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1300 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1304 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1310 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1317 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1320 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1324 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1331 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1334 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1335 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1336 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1337 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1342 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1345 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1346 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1347 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1352 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1355 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1356 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1360 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1363 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1367 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1370 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1374 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1381 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1384 depend on the build and install targets.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1388 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1391 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1395 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1402 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1408 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1414 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1417 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1418 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1419 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1420 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1421 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1422 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1424 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1425 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1426 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1427 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1428 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1429 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1430 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1434 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1440 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1446 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1449 right place. Closes: #55065
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1453 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1460 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1463 * Copyright date updates.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1467 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1470 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1475 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1481 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1488 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1494 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1500 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1506 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1509 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1510 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1511 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1512 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1513 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1514 bits until all files have been registered.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1518 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_installmanpages:
1521 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1522 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1523 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1524 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1525 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1526 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1527 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1528 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1529 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1530 otherwise change the result at all.
1532 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1533 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1534 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1535 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1536 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1541 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1547 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1550 act on files that don't exist.
1551 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1552 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1553 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1555 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1556 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1557 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1558 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1562 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1568 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1574 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1577 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1581 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1584 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1586 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1587 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1588 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1592 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1595 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1596 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1597 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1598 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1599 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1600 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1601 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1603 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1605 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1609 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1616 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1622 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1628 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1631 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1635 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1641 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1647 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1650 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1651 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1652 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1653 I made some changes, though:
1654 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1655 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1656 that is a clear violation of policy.
1657 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1658 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1659 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1660 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1661 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1662 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1663 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1664 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1665 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1667 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1671 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1677 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1680 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1684 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1687 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1688 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1693 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1699 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1706 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1709 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1710 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1711 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1712 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1713 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1714 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1715 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1719 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1725 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1729 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1730 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1734 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1740 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1743 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1747 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1750 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1751 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1755 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1757 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1762 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1766 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1770 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1773 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1774 for the dependancies to be generated.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1778 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1781 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1785 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1788 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1789 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1790 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1795 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1798 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1799 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1803 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1809 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1818 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1822 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1828 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1831 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1832 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1833 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1834 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1835 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1836 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1837 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1838 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1839 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1840 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1841 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1842 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1846 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1849 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1850 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1852 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1853 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1854 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1855 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1856 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1857 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1859 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1860 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1864 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1867 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1871 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1878 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1881 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1886 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1889 for building debhelper.
1890 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1894 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1901 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1904 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1908 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1911 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1912 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1913 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1914 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1915 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1916 it's always available.
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1920 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1923 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1924 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1925 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1929 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1932 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1933 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1937 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1943 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1946 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1950 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1956 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1959 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1960 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1961 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1965 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1968 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1973 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1976 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1977 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1979 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1980 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1984 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1990 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1996 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1999 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2003 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2006 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2007 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2009 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2013 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2016 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2017 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2018 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2022 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2025 things if CDPATH is set.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2029 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2035 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2038 seems to make sense for the transition.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2042 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2045 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2050 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2053 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2054 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2058 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2061 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2065 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2068 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2069 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2070 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2071 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2075 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2081 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2084 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2085 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2086 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2087 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2088 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2089 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2090 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2091 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2092 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2093 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2098 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2101 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2102 * README: mention doc/v2
2103 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2104 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2108 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2110 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2111 be using this script RSN.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2115 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2118 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2119 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2120 more than 1 init script.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2124 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2127 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2131 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Changed perl version detection.
2134 * Changed call to find.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2138 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2141 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2143 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2148 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Really include dh_installpam.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2154 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2157 * Wrote man page for same.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2161 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2164 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2165 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2170 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2177 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2180 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2181 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2182 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2183 x bit was being set!
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2187 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2190 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2191 well. (Closes: 38900)
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2195 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2198 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2199 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2203 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2209 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2216 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2222 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2225 help from Julian Gilbey.
2226 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2227 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2228 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2229 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2230 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2231 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2232 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2237 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2243 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2250 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2256 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2262 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2265 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2269 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2272 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2276 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2279 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2283 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2289 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2292 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2296 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2302 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2308 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2311 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2312 may be deleted. (#35845)
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2316 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Various man page enhancements.
2319 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2324 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2327 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2328 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2332 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2335 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2336 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2337 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2339 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2340 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2345 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2351 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * Another very minor typo fix.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2357 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Very minor typo fix.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2363 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2366 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2367 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2371 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2377 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2380 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2381 variables properly (#34850).
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2385 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2391 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2394 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2395 (automatically generated by build process).
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2399 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2401 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2405 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2408 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2409 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2411 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2415 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2418 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2422 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * README: minor typo fix.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2428 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2431 leave it at that. :-)
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2435 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2441 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2447 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2450 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2451 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2452 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2456 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2459 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2463 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2466 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2470 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2473 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2474 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2475 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2476 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2480 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2483 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2484 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2485 Craig Small for spotting this.
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2489 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2492 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2493 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2497 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2503 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2506 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2510 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2512 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2513 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2514 working on the last version of debhelper.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2518 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2521 being made. (#23255)
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2525 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2531 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2534 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2538 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2541 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2542 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2543 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2544 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2548 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2551 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2552 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2553 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2554 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2556 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2557 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2559 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2564 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2570 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2576 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2579 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2580 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2581 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2582 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2583 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2584 suidregister actually supports it.
2585 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2586 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2590 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2597 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2600 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2601 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2602 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2603 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2604 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2605 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2606 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2610 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2612 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2613 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2617 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2620 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2621 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2622 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2623 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2627 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2630 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2632 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2633 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2634 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2635 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2636 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2637 effect, either. (#30118)
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2641 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2647 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2650 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2651 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2655 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2661 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2664 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2665 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2666 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2667 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2671 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2674 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2675 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2679 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2685 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2688 packages, painlessly.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2692 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2698 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2704 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2710 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * The perl conversion is complete.
2714 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2716 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2717 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2718 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2723 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2726 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2727 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2728 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2732 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2735 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2737 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2739 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2740 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2744 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2747 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2748 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2752 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2758 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2761 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2762 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2763 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2764 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2765 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2769 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2772 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2773 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2774 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2775 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2779 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2782 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2786 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2789 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2790 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2791 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2792 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2793 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2794 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2795 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2796 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2800 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2806 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2809 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2810 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2811 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2816 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2819 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2823 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2826 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2830 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2833 sections of shared libraries.
2834 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2835 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2836 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2837 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2838 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2839 things you don't want them to.
2840 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2841 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2845 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2848 shared libraries. (#26414)
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2852 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2854 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2855 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2856 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2857 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2861 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2865 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2867 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2868 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2869 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2870 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2871 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2875 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2878 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2882 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2885 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2886 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2891 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2894 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2898 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2901 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2902 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2903 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2904 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2905 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2907 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2908 remove debian/files properly.
2909 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2910 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2911 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2912 * Removed bogus menu file.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2916 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2919 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2923 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2926 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2927 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2928 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2929 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2930 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2931 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2935 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2938 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2939 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2940 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2941 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2945 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2952 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2955 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2956 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2958 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2959 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2960 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2961 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2962 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2963 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2967 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2970 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2971 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2972 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2973 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2974 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2975 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2976 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2977 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2978 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2979 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2980 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2981 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2982 passed any switches.
2983 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2987 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2990 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2991 at all for a long while.
2992 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2993 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2994 large chunks in the process.
2995 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2996 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2997 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3002 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3005 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3007 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3012 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3015 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3016 that don't always have the same files in them.
3017 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3018 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3019 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3023 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3027 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3028 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3029 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3030 updating 27 man pages.
3031 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3032 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3033 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3034 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3035 programs act on. (#25247)
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3039 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3043 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3044 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3045 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3046 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3047 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3048 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3053 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3060 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3067 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3070 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3074 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3080 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3083 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3084 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3085 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3086 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3087 package by accident.
3088 * Is version 1.0 next?
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3092 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3095 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3096 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3100 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3103 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3104 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3105 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3106 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3107 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3109 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3114 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3117 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3118 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3122 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3125 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3129 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3132 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3133 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3138 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3144 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3147 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3148 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3153 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3159 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3162 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3163 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3164 past week. Thanks, guys!
3166 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3167 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3168 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3169 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3170 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3171 would do in the same situation.
3172 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3173 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3175 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3177 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3178 permissions changed.
3179 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3180 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3181 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3182 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3183 files are treated identically.
3184 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3185 * Minor man page fixes.
3186 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3187 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3188 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3192 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3195 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3196 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3197 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3198 use -X multiple times, too.
3199 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3200 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3204 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3207 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3208 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3212 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3215 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3219 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3222 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3223 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3224 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3225 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3226 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3227 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3228 shape if you're starting a new package.
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3232 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3235 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3239 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3242 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3243 because of missing symlinks.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3247 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3253 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3256 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3257 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3258 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3259 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3260 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3262 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3263 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3267 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3269 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3270 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3271 to be changed after the fact :-)
3272 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3276 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3279 no version string after the -V.
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3283 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3285 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3286 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3291 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3294 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3298 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3301 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3302 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3303 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3304 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3305 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3306 I always welcome corrections!
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3310 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3316 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3319 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3320 * Documented this new switch.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3324 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3327 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3328 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3329 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3330 no packages use the old behavior.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3334 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3337 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3338 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3342 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3345 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3349 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3355 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3358 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3362 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3365 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3366 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3367 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3371 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3377 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3380 into the source package by accident.
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3384 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3387 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3388 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3389 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3390 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3391 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3392 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3397 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3401 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3402 inspired to implement some of it.
3403 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3407 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3410 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3414 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3417 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3418 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3422 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3425 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3426 have done.) (#17598)
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3430 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3436 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3442 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3445 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3449 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3452 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3453 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3457 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3460 argument processor in perl.
3461 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3462 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3463 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3464 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3468 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3471 type directories. (#16933)
3472 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3473 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3474 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3475 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3476 are supported. (#16935)
3477 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3482 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3485 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3489 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3493 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3494 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3495 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3496 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3497 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3498 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3502 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3505 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3506 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3508 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3509 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3510 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3511 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3512 a given package, or -i or -a.
3513 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3514 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3515 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3516 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3517 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3518 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3519 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3520 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3521 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3523 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3524 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3525 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3529 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3532 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3533 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3538 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3541 does not have a section.
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3545 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3548 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3549 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3550 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3554 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Fixed typo #16215.
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3560 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3563 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3564 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3565 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3566 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3567 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3572 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3575 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3576 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3577 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3582 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3588 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3594 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3597 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3598 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3599 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3600 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3601 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3602 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3606 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3612 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3615 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3619 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3622 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3623 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3624 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3628 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3631 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3635 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3641 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3644 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3648 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3651 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3655 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3661 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3664 postinst, postrm, etc.
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3668 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3674 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3677 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3678 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3679 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3680 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3681 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3685 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3688 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3689 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3693 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3696 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3700 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3703 installing package files into.
3704 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3709 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3713 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3717 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3723 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3726 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3730 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3733 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3734 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3735 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3736 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3740 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3742 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3743 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3744 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3745 multiple binary packages.
3746 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3747 should rebuild them with this version.
3748 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3752 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3755 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3759 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3762 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3766 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3769 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3770 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3771 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3772 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3773 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3774 debian/README.debian.
3775 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3776 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3777 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3778 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3779 in a few situations.)
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3783 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3789 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3795 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3798 * Fixed several man pages.
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3802 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3805 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3806 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3810 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3813 is ready for general use.
3814 * Added man pages for all commands.
3815 * Multiple binary package support.
3816 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3817 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3818 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3820 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3821 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3822 auto-installed as parameters.
3823 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3825 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3828 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3829 the package build directory it is to act on.
3830 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3831 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3832 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3836 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3838 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3839 ready to replace debstd.
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400