1 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
5 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
10 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
12 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
16 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
20 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
21 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
22 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
27 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
30 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
31 practice. Closes: #163303
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
35 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
41 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
48 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
50 * The "reverse hangover" release.
51 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
53 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
54 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
55 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
56 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
57 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
61 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
64 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
69 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
75 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
82 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
85 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
90 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
96 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
102 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
108 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
115 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
118 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
119 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
120 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
121 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
126 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
128 * Typo, Closes: #155323
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
132 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
139 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
142 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
143 * Removed dh_installxaw.
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
147 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
150 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
151 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
152 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
153 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
154 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
158 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
161 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
163 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
168 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
170 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
171 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
175 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
178 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
179 right thing. Closes: #150644
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
183 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
190 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
192 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
197 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
200 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
201 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
206 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
212 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
215 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
219 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
222 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
223 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
228 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
231 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
235 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
241 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
244 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
245 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
249 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
251 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
255 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Removing perl warning message.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
261 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
264 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
265 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
266 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
267 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
268 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
269 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
270 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
271 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
275 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
281 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
288 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
291 debconf-mergetemplate.
292 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
293 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
297 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
300 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
301 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
302 dh_install, which ...
303 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
304 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
305 mess, as it uses debian/install.
306 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
307 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
308 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
309 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
310 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
311 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
312 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
313 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
314 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
315 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
316 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
318 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
319 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
320 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
321 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
322 course there's -X ..)
323 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
324 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
325 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
327 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
328 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
329 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
330 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
331 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
336 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
342 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Typo, Closes: #139176
345 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
349 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
355 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
361 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
367 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
373 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
376 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
377 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
378 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
379 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
381 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
382 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
386 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
392 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Typo, Closes: #132454
395 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
399 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
402 upset. Closes: #131322
404 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
406 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
409 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
410 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
411 line, as well as in debian/rules.
412 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
413 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
414 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
415 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
416 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
417 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
418 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
419 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
420 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
421 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
422 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
423 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
425 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
429 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
432 - Better indenting of generated code.
433 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
437 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
441 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
442 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
443 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
444 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
445 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
446 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
447 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
451 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
454 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
458 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
461 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
462 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
463 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
464 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
465 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
466 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
467 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
468 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
469 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
470 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
471 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
472 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
473 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
474 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
475 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
480 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
486 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
489 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
490 * fixed dh_testdir man page
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
494 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Typo, Closes: #122679
497 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
498 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
502 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
508 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
511 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
512 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
513 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
514 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
515 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
520 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
522 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
526 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
529 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
533 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
536 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
541 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Typo, Closes: #114135
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
547 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
550 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
554 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
560 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
564 Also some indentation fixes.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
568 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
571 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
572 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
573 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
574 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
575 Closes: #106514, #85520
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
579 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Typo, Closes: #104405
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
585 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
591 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
593 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
597 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
603 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
609 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
612 change it in debhelper v4..
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
616 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
622 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
625 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
629 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
632 is not essential. Closes: #100430
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
636 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
642 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
645 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
646 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
647 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
648 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
649 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
650 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
651 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
652 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
653 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
654 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
655 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
656 prefixed with ".debhelper")
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
660 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
663 look just like shared libs, but are not.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
667 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
674 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
677 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
678 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
679 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
680 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
681 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
682 program those options go to. So, for example,
683 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
684 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
685 something complex. Closes: #89311
686 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
690 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
693 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
694 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
695 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
699 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
702 through loop. Closes: #98598
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
706 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Missing semi-colon.
709 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
710 this (dh_* should be called, really).
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
714 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
716 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
717 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
718 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
719 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
723 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
726 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
727 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
731 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
734 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
738 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
741 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
742 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
746 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
749 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
750 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
751 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
755 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
758 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
759 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
760 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
764 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
767 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
771 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
777 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Typo, Closes: #92407
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
783 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
789 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
795 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
798 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
802 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
804 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
805 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
806 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
807 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
808 followed. Closes: #85483
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
812 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
814 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
815 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
816 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
820 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
823 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
824 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
825 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
826 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
827 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
828 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
829 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
830 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
831 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
832 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
833 Closes: #88464, #77743
834 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
835 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
836 us to deal with that gracefully.
837 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
839 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
840 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
841 a while, Closes: #51225
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
845 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
851 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
854 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
858 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
862 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
867 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
870 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
871 don't make packlist files.
872 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
873 debhelper coding standards.
874 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
875 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
879 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
882 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
886 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
889 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
890 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
891 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
892 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
893 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
894 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
895 but is mildly deprecated.
896 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
897 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
898 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
899 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
900 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
901 switching to statoverrides..
902 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
903 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
904 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
905 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
906 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
907 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
909 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
910 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
911 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
912 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
913 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
914 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
915 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
916 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
917 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
919 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
920 variable names, pod man pages).
921 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
922 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
923 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
924 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
925 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
926 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
927 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
931 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
937 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
944 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
946 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
947 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
951 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
953 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
954 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
955 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
959 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
961 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
962 they were previously ignored.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
966 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
968 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
969 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
973 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
975 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
976 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
977 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
981 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
983 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
987 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
989 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
990 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
994 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
996 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
997 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
998 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
999 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1000 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1001 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1002 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1003 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1004 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1005 it is an obsolete program.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1009 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1011 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1015 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1019 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1021 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1025 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1027 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1029 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1031 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1035 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1041 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * typo: Closes, #78567
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1047 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1053 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1059 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1062 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1063 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1064 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1065 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1066 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1070 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1073 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1078 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1081 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1082 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1083 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1084 backwards-compatability.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1088 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1091 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1092 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1093 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1094 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1095 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1096 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1098 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1099 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1100 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1102 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1104 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1105 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1106 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1107 should now be raised to severity important..
1108 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1109 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1113 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1116 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1121 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1127 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1133 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1139 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1146 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1149 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1150 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1151 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1152 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1156 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1162 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1165 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1166 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1167 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1168 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1169 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1170 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1175 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1178 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1182 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1188 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1191 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1196 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1199 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1200 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1201 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1202 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1206 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1210 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1213 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1216 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1217 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1220 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1222 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1223 the TODO entry about it.
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1227 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1234 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1237 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1238 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1242 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1245 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1246 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1247 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1248 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1258 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1265 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1268 (this appears to be logal).
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1272 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1275 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1276 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1277 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1278 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1282 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1291 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1292 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1293 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1294 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1298 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1304 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1307 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1311 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1318 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1321 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1322 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1323 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1328 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1335 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1341 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1344 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1345 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1346 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1347 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1348 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1349 notice until v2 is complete.
1350 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1351 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1352 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1353 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1354 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1355 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1357 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1358 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1359 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1360 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1364 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1370 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1377 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1380 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1384 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1391 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1394 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1395 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1396 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1397 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1402 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1405 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1406 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1407 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1412 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1415 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1416 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1420 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1423 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1427 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1430 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1434 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1441 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1444 depend on the build and install targets.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1448 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1451 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1455 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1462 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1468 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1474 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1477 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1478 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1479 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1480 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1481 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1482 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1484 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1485 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1486 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1487 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1488 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1489 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1490 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1494 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1500 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1506 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1509 right place. Closes: #55065
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1513 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1520 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1523 * Copyright date updates.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1527 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1530 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1535 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1541 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1548 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1554 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1560 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1566 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1569 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1570 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1571 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1572 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1573 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1574 bits until all files have been registered.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1578 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_installmanpages:
1581 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1582 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1583 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1584 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1585 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1586 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1587 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1588 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1589 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1590 otherwise change the result at all.
1592 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1593 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1594 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1595 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1596 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1601 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1607 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1610 act on files that don't exist.
1611 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1612 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1613 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1615 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1616 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1617 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1618 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1622 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1628 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1634 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1637 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1641 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1644 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1646 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1647 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1648 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1652 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1655 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1656 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1657 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1658 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1659 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1660 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1661 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1663 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1665 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1669 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1676 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1682 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1688 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1691 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1695 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1701 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1707 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1710 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1711 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1712 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1713 I made some changes, though:
1714 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1715 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1716 that is a clear violation of policy.
1717 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1718 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1719 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1720 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1721 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1722 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1723 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1724 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1725 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1727 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1731 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1737 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1740 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1744 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1747 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1748 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1753 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1759 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1766 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1769 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1770 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1771 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1772 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1773 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1774 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1775 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1779 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1785 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1789 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1790 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1794 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1800 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1803 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1807 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1810 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1811 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1817 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1822 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1826 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1830 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1833 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1834 for the dependancies to be generated.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1838 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1841 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1845 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1848 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1849 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1850 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1855 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1858 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1859 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1863 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1869 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1875 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1878 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1882 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1888 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1891 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1892 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1893 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1894 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1895 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1896 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1897 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1898 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1899 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1900 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1901 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1902 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1909 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1910 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1912 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1913 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1914 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1915 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1916 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1917 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1919 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1920 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1924 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1927 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1931 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1938 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1941 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1946 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1949 for building debhelper.
1950 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1954 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1961 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1964 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1968 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1971 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1972 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1973 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1974 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1975 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1976 it's always available.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1980 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1983 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1984 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1985 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1989 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1992 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1993 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1997 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2003 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2006 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2010 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2019 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2020 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2021 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2025 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2028 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2033 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2036 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2037 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2039 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2040 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2044 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2050 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2056 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2059 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2063 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2066 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2067 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2069 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2073 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2076 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2077 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2078 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2082 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2085 things if CDPATH is set.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2089 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2095 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2098 seems to make sense for the transition.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2102 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2105 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2110 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2113 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2114 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2118 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2121 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2125 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2128 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2129 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2130 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2131 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2135 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2141 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2144 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2145 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2146 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2147 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2148 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2149 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2150 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2151 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2152 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2153 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2158 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2161 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2162 * README: mention doc/v2
2163 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2164 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2168 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2170 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2171 be using this script RSN.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2175 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2178 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2179 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2180 more than 1 init script.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2184 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2187 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2191 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Changed perl version detection.
2194 * Changed call to find.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2198 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2201 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2203 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2208 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Really include dh_installpam.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2214 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2217 * Wrote man page for same.
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2221 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2224 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2225 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2230 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2237 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2240 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2241 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2242 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2243 x bit was being set!
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2247 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2250 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2251 well. (Closes: 38900)
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2255 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2258 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2259 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2263 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2269 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2276 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2282 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2285 help from Julian Gilbey.
2286 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2287 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2288 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2289 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2290 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2291 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2292 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2297 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2303 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2310 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2316 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2322 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2325 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2329 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2332 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2336 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2339 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2343 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2349 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2352 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2356 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2362 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2368 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2371 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2372 may be deleted. (#35845)
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2376 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Various man page enhancements.
2379 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2384 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2387 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2388 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2392 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2395 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2396 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2397 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2399 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2400 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2405 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2411 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Another very minor typo fix.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2417 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Very minor typo fix.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2423 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2426 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2427 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2431 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2437 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2440 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2441 variables properly (#34850).
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2445 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2451 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2454 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2455 (automatically generated by build process).
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2459 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2461 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2465 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2468 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2469 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2471 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2475 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2478 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2482 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * README: minor typo fix.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2488 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2491 leave it at that. :-)
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2495 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2501 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2507 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2510 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2511 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2512 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2516 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2519 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2523 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2526 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2530 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2533 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2534 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2535 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2536 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2540 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2543 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2544 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2545 Craig Small for spotting this.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2549 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2552 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2553 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2557 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2563 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2566 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2570 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2572 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2573 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2574 working on the last version of debhelper.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2578 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2581 being made. (#23255)
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2585 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2591 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2594 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2598 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2601 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2602 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2603 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2604 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2608 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2611 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2612 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2613 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2614 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2616 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2617 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2619 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2624 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2630 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2636 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2639 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2640 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2641 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2642 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2643 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2644 suidregister actually supports it.
2645 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2646 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2650 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2657 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2660 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2661 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2662 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2663 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2664 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2665 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2666 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2670 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2672 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2673 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2677 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2680 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2681 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2682 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2683 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2687 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2690 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2692 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2693 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2694 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2695 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2696 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2697 effect, either. (#30118)
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2701 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2707 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2710 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2711 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2715 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2721 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2724 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2725 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2726 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2727 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2731 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2734 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2735 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2739 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2745 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2748 packages, painlessly.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2752 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2758 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2764 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2770 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * The perl conversion is complete.
2774 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2776 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2777 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2778 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2783 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2786 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2787 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2788 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2792 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2795 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2797 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2799 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2800 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2804 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2807 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2808 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2812 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2818 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2821 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2822 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2823 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2824 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2825 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2829 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2832 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2833 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2834 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2835 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2839 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2842 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2846 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2849 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2850 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2851 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2852 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2853 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2854 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2855 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2856 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2860 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2866 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2869 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2870 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2871 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2876 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2879 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2883 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2886 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2890 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2893 sections of shared libraries.
2894 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2895 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2896 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2897 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2898 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2899 things you don't want them to.
2900 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2901 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2905 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2908 shared libraries. (#26414)
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2912 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2914 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2915 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2916 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2917 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2921 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2925 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2927 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2928 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2929 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2930 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2931 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2935 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2938 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2942 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2945 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2946 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2951 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2954 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2958 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2961 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2962 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2963 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2964 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2965 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2967 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2968 remove debian/files properly.
2969 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2970 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2971 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2972 * Removed bogus menu file.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2976 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2979 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2983 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2986 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2987 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2988 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2989 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2990 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2991 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2995 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2998 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2999 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3000 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3001 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3005 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3012 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3015 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3016 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3018 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3019 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3020 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3021 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3022 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3023 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3027 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3030 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3031 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3032 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3033 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3034 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3035 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3036 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3037 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3038 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3039 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3040 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3041 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3042 passed any switches.
3043 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3047 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3050 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3051 at all for a long while.
3052 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3053 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3054 large chunks in the process.
3055 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3056 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3057 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3062 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3065 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3067 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3072 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3075 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3076 that don't always have the same files in them.
3077 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3078 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3079 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3083 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3087 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3088 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3089 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3090 updating 27 man pages.
3091 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3092 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3093 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3094 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3095 programs act on. (#25247)
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3099 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3103 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3104 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3105 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3106 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3107 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3108 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3113 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3120 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3127 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3130 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3134 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3140 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3143 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3144 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3145 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3146 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3147 package by accident.
3148 * Is version 1.0 next?
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3152 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3155 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3156 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3160 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3163 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3164 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3165 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3166 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3167 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3169 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3174 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3177 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3178 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3182 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3185 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3189 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3192 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3193 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3198 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3204 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3207 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3208 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3213 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3219 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3222 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3223 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3224 past week. Thanks, guys!
3226 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3227 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3228 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3229 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3230 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3231 would do in the same situation.
3232 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3233 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3235 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3237 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3238 permissions changed.
3239 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3240 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3241 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3242 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3243 files are treated identically.
3244 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3245 * Minor man page fixes.
3246 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3247 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3248 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3252 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3255 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3256 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3257 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3258 use -X multiple times, too.
3259 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3260 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3264 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3267 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3268 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3272 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3275 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3279 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3282 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3283 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3284 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3285 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3286 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3287 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3288 shape if you're starting a new package.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3292 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3295 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3299 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3302 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3303 because of missing symlinks.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3307 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3313 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3316 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3317 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3318 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3319 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3320 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3322 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3323 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3327 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3329 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3330 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3331 to be changed after the fact :-)
3332 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3336 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3339 no version string after the -V.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3343 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3345 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3346 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3351 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3354 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3358 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3361 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3362 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3363 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3364 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3365 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3366 I always welcome corrections!
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3370 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3376 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3379 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3380 * Documented this new switch.
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3384 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3387 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3388 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3389 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3390 no packages use the old behavior.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3394 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3397 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3398 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3402 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3405 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3409 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3415 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3418 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3422 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3425 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3426 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3427 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3431 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3437 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3440 into the source package by accident.
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3444 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3447 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3448 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3449 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3450 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3451 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3452 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3457 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3461 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3462 inspired to implement some of it.
3463 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3467 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3470 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3474 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3477 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3478 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3482 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3485 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3486 have done.) (#17598)
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3490 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3496 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3502 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3505 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3509 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3512 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3513 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3517 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3520 argument processor in perl.
3521 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3522 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3523 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3524 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3528 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3531 type directories. (#16933)
3532 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3533 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3534 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3535 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3536 are supported. (#16935)
3537 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3542 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3545 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3549 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3553 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3554 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3555 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3556 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3557 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3558 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3562 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3565 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3566 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3568 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3569 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3570 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3571 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3572 a given package, or -i or -a.
3573 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3574 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3575 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3576 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3577 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3578 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3579 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3580 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3581 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3583 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3584 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3585 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3589 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3592 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3593 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3598 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3601 does not have a section.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3605 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3608 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3609 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3610 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3614 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * Fixed typo #16215.
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3620 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3623 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3624 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3625 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3626 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3627 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3632 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3635 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3636 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3637 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3642 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3648 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3654 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3657 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3658 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3659 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3660 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3661 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3662 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3666 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3672 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3675 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3679 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3682 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3683 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3684 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3688 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3691 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3695 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3701 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3704 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3708 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3711 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3715 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3721 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3724 postinst, postrm, etc.
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3728 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3734 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3737 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3738 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3739 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3740 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3741 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3745 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3748 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3749 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3753 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3756 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3760 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3763 installing package files into.
3764 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3769 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3773 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3777 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3783 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3786 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3790 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3793 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3794 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3795 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3796 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3800 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3802 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3803 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3804 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3805 multiple binary packages.
3806 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3807 should rebuild them with this version.
3808 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3812 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3815 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3819 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3822 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3826 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3829 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3830 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3831 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3832 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3833 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3834 debian/README.debian.
3835 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3836 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3837 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3838 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3839 in a few situations.)
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3843 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3849 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3855 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3858 * Fixed several man pages.
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3862 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3865 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3866 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3870 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3873 is ready for general use.
3874 * Added man pages for all commands.
3875 * Multiple binary package support.
3876 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3877 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3878 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3880 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3881 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3882 auto-installed as parameters.
3883 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3885 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3888 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3889 the package build directory it is to act on.
3890 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3891 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3892 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3896 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3898 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3899 ready to replace debstd.
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400