1 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
4 files from installation.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
8 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
11 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
12 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
16 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
19 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
23 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
26 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
30 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
36 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
42 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
46 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
47 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
49 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
53 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
56 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
57 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
58 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
59 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
63 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
65 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
66 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
70 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
73 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
74 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
78 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
82 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
87 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
93 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
97 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
98 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
99 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
104 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
106 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
107 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
108 practice. Closes: #163303
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
112 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
118 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
120 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
125 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
127 * The "reverse hangover" release.
128 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
130 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
131 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
132 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
133 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
134 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
138 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
141 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
146 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
152 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
159 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
162 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
167 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
173 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
175 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
179 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
185 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
192 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
195 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
196 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
197 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
198 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
203 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Typo, Closes: #155323
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
209 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
216 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
219 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
220 * Removed dh_installxaw.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
224 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
227 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
228 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
229 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
230 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
231 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
235 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
238 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
240 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
245 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
247 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
248 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
252 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
255 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
256 right thing. Closes: #150644
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
260 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
267 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
269 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
274 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
277 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
278 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
283 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
289 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
292 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
296 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
299 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
300 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
305 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
308 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
312 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
318 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
321 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
322 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
326 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
332 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Removing perl warning message.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
338 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
341 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
342 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
343 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
344 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
345 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
346 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
347 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
348 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
352 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
358 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
365 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
368 debconf-mergetemplate.
369 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
370 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
374 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
377 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
378 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
379 dh_install, which ...
380 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
381 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
382 mess, as it uses debian/install.
383 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
384 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
385 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
386 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
387 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
388 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
389 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
390 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
391 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
392 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
393 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
395 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
396 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
397 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
398 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
399 course there's -X ..)
400 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
401 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
402 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
404 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
405 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
406 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
407 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
408 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
413 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
419 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Typo, Closes: #139176
422 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
426 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
432 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
438 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
440 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
444 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
450 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
453 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
454 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
455 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
456 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
458 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
459 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
463 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
469 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Typo, Closes: #132454
472 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
476 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
479 upset. Closes: #131322
481 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
483 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
486 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
487 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
488 line, as well as in debian/rules.
489 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
490 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
491 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
492 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
493 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
494 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
495 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
496 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
497 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
498 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
499 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
500 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
502 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
506 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
509 - Better indenting of generated code.
510 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
514 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
518 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
519 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
520 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
521 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
522 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
523 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
524 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
528 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
531 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
535 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
538 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
539 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
540 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
541 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
542 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
543 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
544 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
545 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
546 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
547 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
548 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
549 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
550 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
551 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
552 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
557 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
563 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
566 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
567 * fixed dh_testdir man page
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
571 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Typo, Closes: #122679
574 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
575 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
579 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
585 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
588 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
589 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
590 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
591 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
592 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
597 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
599 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
603 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
606 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
610 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
613 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
618 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
620 * Typo, Closes: #114135
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
624 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
627 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
631 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
637 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
641 Also some indentation fixes.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
645 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
648 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
649 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
650 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
651 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
652 Closes: #106514, #85520
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
656 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Typo, Closes: #104405
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
662 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
668 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
670 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
674 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
680 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
686 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
689 change it in debhelper v4..
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
693 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
699 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
702 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
706 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
709 is not essential. Closes: #100430
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
713 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
719 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
722 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
723 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
724 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
725 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
726 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
727 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
728 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
729 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
730 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
731 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
732 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
733 prefixed with ".debhelper")
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
737 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
740 look just like shared libs, but are not.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
744 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
751 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
754 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
755 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
756 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
757 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
758 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
759 program those options go to. So, for example,
760 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
761 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
762 something complex. Closes: #89311
763 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
767 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
770 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
771 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
772 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
776 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
779 through loop. Closes: #98598
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
783 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Missing semi-colon.
786 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
787 this (dh_* should be called, really).
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
791 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
794 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
795 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
796 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
800 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
803 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
804 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
808 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
811 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
815 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
818 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
819 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
823 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
826 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
827 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
828 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
832 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
834 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
835 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
836 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
837 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
841 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
844 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
848 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
854 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Typo, Closes: #92407
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
860 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
862 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
866 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
872 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
875 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
879 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
882 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
883 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
884 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
885 followed. Closes: #85483
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
889 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
891 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
892 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
893 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
897 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
900 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
901 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
902 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
903 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
904 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
905 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
906 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
907 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
908 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
909 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
910 Closes: #88464, #77743
911 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
912 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
913 us to deal with that gracefully.
914 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
916 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
917 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
918 a while, Closes: #51225
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
922 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
928 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
931 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
935 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
939 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
944 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
947 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
948 don't make packlist files.
949 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
950 debhelper coding standards.
951 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
952 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
956 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
959 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
963 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
965 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
966 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
967 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
968 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
969 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
970 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
971 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
972 but is mildly deprecated.
973 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
974 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
975 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
976 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
977 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
978 switching to statoverrides..
979 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
980 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
981 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
982 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
983 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
984 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
986 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
987 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
988 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
989 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
990 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
991 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
992 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
993 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
994 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
996 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
997 variable names, pod man pages).
998 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
999 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1000 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1001 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1002 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1003 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1004 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1008 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1014 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1021 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1024 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1028 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1030 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1031 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1032 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1036 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1038 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1039 they were previously ignored.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1043 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1045 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1046 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1050 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1052 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1053 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1054 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1058 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1060 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1064 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1066 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1067 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1071 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1073 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1074 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1075 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1076 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1077 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1078 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1079 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1080 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1081 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1082 it is an obsolete program.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1086 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1088 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1092 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1096 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1098 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1102 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1104 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1106 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1108 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1112 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1118 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * typo: Closes, #78567
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1124 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1130 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1136 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1139 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1140 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1141 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1142 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1143 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1147 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1150 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1155 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1158 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1159 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1160 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1161 backwards-compatability.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1165 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1168 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1169 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1170 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1171 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1172 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1173 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1175 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1176 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1177 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1179 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1181 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1182 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1183 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1184 should now be raised to severity important..
1185 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1186 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1190 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1193 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1198 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1204 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1210 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1216 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1223 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1226 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1227 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1228 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1229 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1233 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1239 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1242 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1243 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1244 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1245 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1246 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1247 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1252 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1255 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1259 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1265 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1268 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1273 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1276 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1277 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1278 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1279 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1283 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1287 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1290 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1293 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1294 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1297 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1299 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1300 the TODO entry about it.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1304 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1311 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1314 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1315 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1319 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1322 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1323 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1324 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1325 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1329 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1335 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1342 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1345 (this appears to be logal).
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1349 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1352 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1353 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1354 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1355 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1359 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1365 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1368 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1369 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1370 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1371 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1375 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1381 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1384 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1388 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1395 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1398 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1399 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1400 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1405 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1412 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1418 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1421 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1422 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1423 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1424 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1425 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1426 notice until v2 is complete.
1427 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1428 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1429 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1430 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1431 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1432 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1434 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1435 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1436 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1437 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1441 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1447 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1454 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1457 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1461 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1468 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1471 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1472 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1473 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1474 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1479 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1482 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1483 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1484 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1492 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1493 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1500 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1507 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1511 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1518 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1521 depend on the build and install targets.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1525 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1528 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1532 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1539 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1545 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1551 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1554 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1555 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1556 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1557 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1558 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1559 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1561 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1562 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1563 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1564 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1565 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1566 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1567 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1571 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1577 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1583 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1586 right place. Closes: #55065
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1590 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1597 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1600 * Copyright date updates.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1604 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1607 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1612 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1618 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1625 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1631 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1637 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1643 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1646 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1647 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1648 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1649 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1650 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1651 bits until all files have been registered.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1655 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_installmanpages:
1658 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1659 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1660 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1661 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1662 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1663 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1664 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1665 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1666 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1667 otherwise change the result at all.
1669 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1670 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1671 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1672 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1673 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1678 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1684 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1687 act on files that don't exist.
1688 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1689 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1690 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1692 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1693 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1694 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1695 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1699 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1705 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1711 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1714 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1718 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1721 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1723 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1724 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1725 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1729 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1732 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1733 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1734 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1735 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1736 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1737 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1738 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1740 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1742 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1746 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1753 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1759 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1765 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1768 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1772 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1778 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1784 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1787 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1788 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1789 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1790 I made some changes, though:
1791 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1792 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1793 that is a clear violation of policy.
1794 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1795 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1796 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1797 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1798 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1799 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1800 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1801 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1802 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1804 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1808 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1814 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1817 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1821 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1824 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1825 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1830 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1836 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1843 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1846 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1847 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1848 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1849 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1850 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1851 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1852 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1856 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1862 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1866 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1867 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1871 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1880 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1884 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1887 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1888 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1892 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1894 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1899 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1903 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1907 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1910 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1911 for the dependancies to be generated.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1915 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1918 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1922 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1925 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1926 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1927 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1932 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1935 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1936 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1940 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1946 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1952 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1955 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1959 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1965 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1968 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1969 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1970 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1971 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1972 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1973 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1974 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1975 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1976 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1977 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1978 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1979 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1983 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1986 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1987 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1989 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1990 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1991 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1992 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1993 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1994 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1996 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1997 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2001 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2004 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2008 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2015 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2018 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2023 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2026 for building debhelper.
2027 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2031 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2038 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2041 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2045 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2048 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2049 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2050 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2051 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2052 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2053 it's always available.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2057 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2060 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2061 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2062 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2066 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2069 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2070 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2074 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2080 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2083 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2087 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2093 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2096 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2097 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2098 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2102 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2105 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2110 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2113 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2114 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2116 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2117 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2121 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2127 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2133 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2136 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2140 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2143 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2144 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2146 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2150 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2153 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2154 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2155 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2159 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2162 things if CDPATH is set.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2166 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2172 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2175 seems to make sense for the transition.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2179 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2182 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2187 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2190 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2191 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2195 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2198 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2202 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2205 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2206 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2207 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2208 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2212 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2218 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2221 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2222 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2223 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2224 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2225 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2226 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2227 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2228 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2229 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2230 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2235 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2238 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2239 * README: mention doc/v2
2240 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2241 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2245 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2247 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2248 be using this script RSN.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2252 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2255 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2256 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2257 more than 1 init script.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2261 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2264 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2268 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * Changed perl version detection.
2271 * Changed call to find.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2275 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2278 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2280 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2285 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Really include dh_installpam.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2291 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2294 * Wrote man page for same.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2298 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2301 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2302 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2307 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2314 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2317 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2318 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2319 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2320 x bit was being set!
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2324 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2327 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2328 well. (Closes: 38900)
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2332 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2335 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2336 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2340 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2346 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2353 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2359 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2362 help from Julian Gilbey.
2363 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2364 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2365 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2366 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2367 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2368 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2369 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2374 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2380 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2387 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2393 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2399 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2402 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2406 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2409 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2413 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2416 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2420 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2426 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2429 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2433 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2439 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2445 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2448 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2449 may be deleted. (#35845)
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2453 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Various man page enhancements.
2456 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2461 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2464 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2465 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2469 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2472 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2473 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2474 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2476 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2477 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2482 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2488 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Another very minor typo fix.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2494 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Very minor typo fix.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2500 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2503 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2504 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2508 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2514 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2517 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2518 variables properly (#34850).
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2522 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2528 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2531 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2532 (automatically generated by build process).
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2536 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2538 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2542 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2545 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2546 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2548 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2552 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2555 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2559 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * README: minor typo fix.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2565 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2568 leave it at that. :-)
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2572 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2578 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2584 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2587 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2588 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2589 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2593 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2596 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2600 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2603 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2607 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2610 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2611 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2612 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2613 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2617 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2620 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2621 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2622 Craig Small for spotting this.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2626 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2629 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2630 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2634 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2640 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2643 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2647 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2649 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2650 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2651 working on the last version of debhelper.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2655 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2658 being made. (#23255)
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2662 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2668 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2671 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2675 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2678 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2679 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2680 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2681 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2685 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2688 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2689 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2690 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2691 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2693 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2694 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2696 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2701 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2707 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2713 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2716 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2717 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2718 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2719 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2720 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2721 suidregister actually supports it.
2722 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2723 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2727 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2734 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2737 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2738 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2739 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2740 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2741 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2742 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2743 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2747 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2749 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2750 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2754 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2757 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2758 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2759 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2760 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2764 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2767 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2769 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2770 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2771 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2772 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2773 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2774 effect, either. (#30118)
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2778 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2784 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2787 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2788 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2792 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2798 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2801 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2802 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2803 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2804 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2808 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2811 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2812 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2816 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2822 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2825 packages, painlessly.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2829 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2835 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2841 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2847 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * The perl conversion is complete.
2851 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2853 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2854 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2855 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2860 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2863 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2864 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2865 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2869 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2872 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2874 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2876 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2877 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2881 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2884 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2885 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2889 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2895 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2898 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2899 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2900 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2901 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2902 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2906 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2909 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2910 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2911 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2912 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2916 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2919 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2923 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2926 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2927 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2928 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2929 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2930 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2931 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2932 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2933 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2937 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2943 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2946 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2947 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2948 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2953 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2956 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2960 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2963 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2967 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2970 sections of shared libraries.
2971 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2972 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2973 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2974 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2975 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2976 things you don't want them to.
2977 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2978 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2982 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2985 shared libraries. (#26414)
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2989 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2991 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2992 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2993 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2994 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2998 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3002 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3004 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3005 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3006 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3007 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3008 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3012 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3015 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3019 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3022 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3023 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3028 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3031 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3035 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3038 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3039 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3040 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3041 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3042 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3044 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3045 remove debian/files properly.
3046 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3047 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3048 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3049 * Removed bogus menu file.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3053 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3056 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3060 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3063 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3064 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3065 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3066 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3067 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3068 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3072 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3075 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3076 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3077 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3078 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3082 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3089 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3092 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3093 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3095 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3096 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3097 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3098 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3099 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3100 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3104 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3107 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3108 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3109 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3110 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3111 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3112 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3113 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3114 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3115 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3116 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3117 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3118 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3119 passed any switches.
3120 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3124 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3127 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3128 at all for a long while.
3129 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3130 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3131 large chunks in the process.
3132 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3133 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3134 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3139 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3142 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3144 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3149 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3152 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3153 that don't always have the same files in them.
3154 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3155 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3156 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3160 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3164 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3165 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3166 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3167 updating 27 man pages.
3168 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3169 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3170 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3171 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3172 programs act on. (#25247)
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3176 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3180 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3181 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3182 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3183 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3184 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3185 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3190 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3197 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3204 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3207 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3211 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3217 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3220 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3221 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3222 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3223 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3224 package by accident.
3225 * Is version 1.0 next?
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3229 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3232 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3233 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3237 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3240 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3241 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3242 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3243 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3244 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3246 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3251 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3254 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3255 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3259 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3262 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3266 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3269 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3270 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3275 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3281 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3284 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3285 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3290 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3296 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3299 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3300 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3301 past week. Thanks, guys!
3303 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3304 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3305 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3306 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3307 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3308 would do in the same situation.
3309 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3310 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3312 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3314 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3315 permissions changed.
3316 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3317 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3318 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3319 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3320 files are treated identically.
3321 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3322 * Minor man page fixes.
3323 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3324 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3325 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3329 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3332 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3333 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3334 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3335 use -X multiple times, too.
3336 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3337 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3341 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3344 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3345 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3349 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3352 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3356 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3359 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3360 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3361 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3362 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3363 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3364 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3365 shape if you're starting a new package.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3369 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3372 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3376 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3379 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3380 because of missing symlinks.
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3384 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3390 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3393 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3394 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3395 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3396 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3397 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3399 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3400 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3404 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3406 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3407 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3408 to be changed after the fact :-)
3409 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3413 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3415 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3416 no version string after the -V.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3420 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3422 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3423 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3428 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3431 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3435 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3438 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3439 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3440 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3441 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3442 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3443 I always welcome corrections!
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3447 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3453 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3456 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3457 * Documented this new switch.
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3461 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3464 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3465 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3466 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3467 no packages use the old behavior.
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3471 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3474 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3475 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3479 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3482 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3486 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3492 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3495 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3499 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3502 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3503 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3504 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3508 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3514 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3517 into the source package by accident.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3521 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3524 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3525 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3526 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3527 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3528 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3529 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3534 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3538 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3539 inspired to implement some of it.
3540 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3544 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3547 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3551 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3554 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3555 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3559 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3562 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3563 have done.) (#17598)
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3567 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3573 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3579 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3582 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3586 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3589 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3590 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3594 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3597 argument processor in perl.
3598 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3599 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3600 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3601 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3605 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3608 type directories. (#16933)
3609 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3610 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3611 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3612 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3613 are supported. (#16935)
3614 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3619 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3622 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3626 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3630 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3631 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3632 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3633 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3634 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3635 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3639 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3642 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3643 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3645 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3646 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3647 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3648 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3649 a given package, or -i or -a.
3650 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3651 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3652 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3653 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3654 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3655 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3656 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3657 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3658 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3660 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3661 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3662 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3666 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3669 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3670 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3675 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3678 does not have a section.
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3682 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3685 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3686 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3687 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3691 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Fixed typo #16215.
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3697 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3700 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3701 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3702 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3703 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3704 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3709 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3712 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3713 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3714 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3719 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3725 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3731 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3734 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3735 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3736 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3737 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3738 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3739 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3743 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3749 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3752 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3756 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3759 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3760 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3761 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3765 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3768 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3772 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3778 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3781 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3785 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3788 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3792 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3798 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3801 postinst, postrm, etc.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3805 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3811 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3814 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3815 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3816 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3817 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3818 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3822 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3825 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3826 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3830 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3833 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3837 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3840 installing package files into.
3841 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3846 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3850 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3854 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3860 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3863 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3867 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3870 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3871 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3872 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3873 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3877 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3879 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3880 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3881 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3882 multiple binary packages.
3883 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3884 should rebuild them with this version.
3885 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3889 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3892 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3896 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3899 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3903 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3906 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3907 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3908 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3909 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3910 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3911 debian/README.debian.
3912 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3913 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3914 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3915 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3916 in a few situations.)
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3920 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3926 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3932 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3935 * Fixed several man pages.
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3939 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3942 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3943 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3947 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3950 is ready for general use.
3951 * Added man pages for all commands.
3952 * Multiple binary package support.
3953 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3954 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3955 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3957 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3958 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3959 auto-installed as parameters.
3960 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3962 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3965 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3966 the package build directory it is to act on.
3967 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3968 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3969 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3973 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3975 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3976 ready to replace debstd.
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400