1 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
4 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
5 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
6 line, as well as in debian/rules.
7 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
8 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
9 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
10 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
11 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
12 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
13 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
14 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
15 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
16 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
17 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
18 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
20 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
24 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
27 - Better indenting of generated code.
28 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
32 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
36 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
37 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
38 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
39 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
40 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
41 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
42 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
46 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
49 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
53 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
56 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
57 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
58 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
59 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
60 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
61 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
62 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
63 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
64 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
65 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
66 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
67 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
68 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
69 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
70 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
75 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
81 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
84 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
85 * fixed dh_testdir man page
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
89 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Typo, Closes: #122679
92 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
93 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
97 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
103 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
106 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
107 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
108 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
109 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
110 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
115 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
117 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
121 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
124 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
128 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
131 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
136 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Typo, Closes: #114135
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
142 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
145 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
149 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
155 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
159 Also some indentation fixes.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
163 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
166 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
167 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
168 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
169 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
170 Closes: #106514, #85520
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
174 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Typo, Closes: #104405
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
180 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
186 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
188 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
192 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
198 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
200 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
204 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
207 change it in debhelper v4..
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
211 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
217 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
220 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
224 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
227 is not essential. Closes: #100430
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
231 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
237 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
240 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
241 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
242 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
243 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
244 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
245 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
246 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
247 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
248 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
249 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
250 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
251 prefixed with ".debhelper")
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
255 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
258 look just like shared libs, but are not.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
262 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
269 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
272 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
273 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
274 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
275 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
276 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
277 program those options go to. So, for example,
278 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
279 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
280 something complex. Closes: #89311
281 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
285 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
287 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
288 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
289 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
290 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
294 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
297 through loop. Closes: #98598
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
301 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Missing semi-colon.
304 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
305 this (dh_* should be called, really).
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
309 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
312 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
313 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
314 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
318 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
321 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
322 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
326 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
329 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
333 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
336 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
337 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
341 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
344 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
345 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
346 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
350 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
353 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
354 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
355 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
359 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
362 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
366 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
372 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Typo, Closes: #92407
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
378 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
384 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
390 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
393 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
397 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
400 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
401 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
402 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
403 followed. Closes: #85483
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
407 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
409 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
410 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
411 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
415 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
418 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
419 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
420 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
421 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
422 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
423 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
424 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
425 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
426 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
427 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
428 Closes: #88464, #77743
429 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
430 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
431 us to deal with that gracefully.
432 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
434 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
435 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
436 a while, Closes: #51225
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
440 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
446 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
449 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
453 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
457 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
462 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
465 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
466 don't make packlist files.
467 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
468 debhelper coding standards.
469 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
470 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
474 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
477 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
481 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
484 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
485 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
486 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
487 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
488 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
489 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
490 but is mildly deprecated.
491 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
492 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
493 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
494 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
495 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
496 switching to statoverrides..
497 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
498 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
499 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
500 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
501 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
502 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
504 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
505 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
506 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
507 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
508 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
509 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
510 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
511 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
512 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
514 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
515 variable names, pod man pages).
516 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
517 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
518 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
519 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
520 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
521 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
522 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
526 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
532 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
539 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
542 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
546 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
548 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
549 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
550 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
554 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
556 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
557 they were previously ignored.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
561 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
563 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
564 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
568 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
570 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
571 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
572 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
576 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
578 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
582 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
584 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
585 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
589 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
591 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
592 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
593 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
594 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
595 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
596 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
597 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
598 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
599 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
600 it is an obsolete program.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
604 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
606 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
610 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
614 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
616 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
620 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
622 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
624 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
626 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
630 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
636 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
638 * typo: Closes, #78567
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
642 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
648 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
654 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
656 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
657 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
658 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
659 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
660 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
661 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
665 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
667 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
668 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
673 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
675 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
676 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
677 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
678 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
679 backwards-compatability.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
683 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
685 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
686 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
687 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
688 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
689 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
690 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
691 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
693 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
694 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
695 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
697 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
699 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
700 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
701 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
702 should now be raised to severity important..
703 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
704 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
708 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
711 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
716 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Typo, Closes: #77441
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
722 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
724 * Completed the fix from the last version.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
728 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
730 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
734 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
736 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
741 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
744 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
745 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
746 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
747 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
751 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
757 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
760 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
761 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
762 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
763 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
764 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
765 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
770 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
773 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
777 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
783 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
786 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
791 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
794 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
795 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
796 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
797 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
801 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
805 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
808 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
811 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
812 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
815 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
817 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
818 the TODO entry about it.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
822 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
829 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
832 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
833 prevent that. Closes: #73052
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
837 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Typo, Closes: #72932
840 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
841 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
842 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
843 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
847 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
853 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
860 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
863 (this appears to be logal).
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
867 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
870 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
871 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
872 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
873 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
877 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
883 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
885 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
886 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
887 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
888 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
889 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
893 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
899 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
902 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
906 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
913 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
916 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
917 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
918 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
923 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
930 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
936 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
938 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
939 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
940 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
941 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
942 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
943 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
944 notice until v2 is complete.
945 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
946 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
947 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
948 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
949 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
950 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
952 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
953 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
954 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
955 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
959 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
961 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
965 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
972 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
975 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
979 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
986 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
989 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
990 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
991 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
992 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
997 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1000 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1001 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1002 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1007 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1010 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1011 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1015 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1018 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1022 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1025 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1029 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1036 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1039 depend on the build and install targets.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1043 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1046 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1050 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1057 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1063 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1069 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1072 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1073 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1074 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1075 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1076 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1077 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1079 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1080 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1081 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1082 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1083 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1084 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1085 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1089 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1095 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1101 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1104 right place. Closes: #55065
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1108 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1115 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1118 * Copyright date updates.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1122 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1125 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1130 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1136 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1143 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1149 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1155 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1161 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1164 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1165 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1166 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1167 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1168 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1169 bits until all files have been registered.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1173 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_installmanpages:
1176 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1177 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1178 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1179 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1180 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1181 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1182 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1183 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1184 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1185 otherwise change the result at all.
1187 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1188 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1189 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1190 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1191 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1196 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1202 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1205 act on files that don't exist.
1206 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1207 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1208 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1210 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1211 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1212 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1213 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1217 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1223 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1229 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1232 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1236 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1239 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1241 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1242 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1243 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1247 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1250 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1251 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1252 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1253 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1254 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1255 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1256 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1258 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1260 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1264 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1271 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1277 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1283 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1286 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1290 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1296 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1302 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1305 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1306 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1307 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1308 I made some changes, though:
1309 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1310 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1311 that is a clear violation of policy.
1312 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1313 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1314 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1315 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1316 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1317 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1318 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1319 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1320 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1322 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1326 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1332 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1335 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1339 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1342 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1343 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1348 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1354 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1361 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1364 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1365 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1366 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1367 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1368 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1369 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1370 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1374 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1380 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1384 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1385 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1389 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1395 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1398 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1402 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1405 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1406 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1410 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1412 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1417 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1421 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1425 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1428 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1429 for the dependancies to be generated.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1433 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1436 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1440 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1443 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1444 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1445 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1450 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1453 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1454 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1458 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1464 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1470 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1473 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1477 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1483 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1486 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1487 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1488 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1489 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1490 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1491 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1492 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1493 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1494 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1495 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1496 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1497 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1501 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1504 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1505 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1507 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1508 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1509 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1510 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1511 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1512 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1514 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1515 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1519 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1522 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1526 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1533 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1536 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1541 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1544 for building debhelper.
1545 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1549 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1556 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1559 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1563 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1566 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1567 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1568 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1569 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1570 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1571 it's always available.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1575 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1578 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1579 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1580 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1584 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1587 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1588 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1592 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1598 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1601 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1605 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1611 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1614 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1615 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1616 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1620 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1623 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1628 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1631 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1632 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1634 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1635 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1639 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1645 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1651 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1654 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1658 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1661 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1662 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1664 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1668 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1671 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1672 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1673 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1677 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1680 things if CDPATH is set.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1684 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1690 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1693 seems to make sense for the transition.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1697 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1700 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1705 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1708 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1709 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1713 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1716 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1720 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1723 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1724 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1725 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1726 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1730 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1736 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1739 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1740 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1741 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1742 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1743 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1744 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1745 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1746 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1747 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1748 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1753 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1756 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1757 * README: mention doc/v2
1758 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1759 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1763 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1765 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1766 be using this script RSN.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1770 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1773 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1774 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1775 more than 1 init script.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1779 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1782 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1786 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Changed perl version detection.
1789 * Changed call to find.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1793 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1796 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1798 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1803 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Really include dh_installpam.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1809 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1812 * Wrote man page for same.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1816 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1819 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1820 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1825 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1832 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1835 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1836 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1837 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1838 x bit was being set!
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1842 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1845 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1846 well. (Closes: 38900)
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1850 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1853 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1854 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1858 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1864 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1871 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1877 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1880 help from Julian Gilbey.
1881 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1882 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1883 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1884 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1885 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1886 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1887 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1892 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1898 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1905 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1911 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1917 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1920 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1924 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1927 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1931 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1934 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1938 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1944 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1947 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1951 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1957 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1963 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1966 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1967 may be deleted. (#35845)
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1971 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Various man page enhancements.
1974 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1979 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1982 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1983 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1987 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1990 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1991 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1992 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1994 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1995 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2000 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2006 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Another very minor typo fix.
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2012 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * Very minor typo fix.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2018 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2021 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2022 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2026 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2032 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2035 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2036 variables properly (#34850).
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2040 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2046 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2049 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2050 (automatically generated by build process).
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2054 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2056 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2060 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2063 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2064 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2066 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2070 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2073 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2077 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * README: minor typo fix.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2083 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2086 leave it at that. :-)
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2090 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2096 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2102 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2105 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2106 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2107 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2111 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2114 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2118 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2121 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2125 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2128 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2129 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2130 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2131 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2135 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2138 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2139 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2140 Craig Small for spotting this.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2144 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2147 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2148 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2152 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2158 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2161 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2165 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2167 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2168 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2169 working on the last version of debhelper.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2173 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2176 being made. (#23255)
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2180 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2186 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2189 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2193 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2196 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2197 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2198 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2199 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2203 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2206 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2207 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2208 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2209 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2211 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2212 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2214 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2219 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2225 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2231 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2234 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2235 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2236 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2237 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2238 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2239 suidregister actually supports it.
2240 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2241 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2245 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2252 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2255 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2256 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2257 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2258 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2259 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2260 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2261 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2265 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2267 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2268 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2272 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2275 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2276 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2277 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2278 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2282 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2285 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2287 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2288 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2289 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2290 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2291 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2292 effect, either. (#30118)
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2296 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2302 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2305 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2306 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2310 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2316 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2319 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2320 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2321 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2322 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2326 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2329 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2330 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2334 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2340 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2343 packages, painlessly.
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2347 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2353 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2359 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2365 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * The perl conversion is complete.
2369 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2371 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2372 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2373 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2378 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2381 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2382 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2383 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2387 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2390 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2392 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2394 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2395 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2399 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2402 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2403 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2407 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2413 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2416 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2417 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2418 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2419 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2420 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2424 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2427 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2428 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2429 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2430 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2434 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2437 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2441 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2444 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2445 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2446 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2447 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2448 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2449 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2450 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2451 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2455 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2461 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2464 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2465 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2466 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2471 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2474 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2478 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2481 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2485 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2488 sections of shared libraries.
2489 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2490 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2491 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2492 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2493 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2494 things you don't want them to.
2495 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2496 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2500 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2503 shared libraries. (#26414)
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2507 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2509 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2510 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2511 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2512 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2516 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2520 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2522 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2523 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2524 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2525 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2526 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2530 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2533 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2537 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2540 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2541 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2546 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2549 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2553 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2556 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2557 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2558 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2559 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2560 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2562 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2563 remove debian/files properly.
2564 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2565 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2566 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2567 * Removed bogus menu file.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2571 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2574 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2578 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2581 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2582 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2583 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2584 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2585 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2586 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2590 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2593 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2594 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2595 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2596 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2600 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2607 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2610 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2611 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2613 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2614 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2615 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2616 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2617 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2618 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2622 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2625 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2626 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2627 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2628 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2629 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2630 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2631 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2632 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2633 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2634 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2635 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2636 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2637 passed any switches.
2638 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2642 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2645 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2646 at all for a long while.
2647 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2648 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2649 large chunks in the process.
2650 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2651 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2652 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2657 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2660 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2662 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2667 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2670 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2671 that don't always have the same files in them.
2672 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2673 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2674 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2678 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2682 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2683 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2684 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2685 updating 27 man pages.
2686 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2687 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2688 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2689 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2690 programs act on. (#25247)
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2694 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2698 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2699 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2700 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2701 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2702 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2703 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2708 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2715 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2722 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2725 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2729 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2735 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2738 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2739 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2740 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2741 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2742 package by accident.
2743 * Is version 1.0 next?
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2747 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2750 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2751 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2755 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2758 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2759 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2760 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2761 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2762 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2764 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2769 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2772 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2773 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2777 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2780 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2784 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2787 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2788 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2793 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2799 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2802 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2803 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2808 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2814 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2817 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2818 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2819 past week. Thanks, guys!
2821 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2822 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2823 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2824 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2825 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2826 would do in the same situation.
2827 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2828 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2830 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2832 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2833 permissions changed.
2834 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2835 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2836 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2837 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2838 files are treated identically.
2839 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2840 * Minor man page fixes.
2841 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2842 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2843 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2847 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2850 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2851 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2852 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2853 use -X multiple times, too.
2854 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2855 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2859 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2862 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2863 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2867 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2870 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2874 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2877 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2878 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2879 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2880 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2881 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2882 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2883 shape if you're starting a new package.
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2887 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2890 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2894 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2897 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2898 because of missing symlinks.
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2902 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2908 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2911 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2912 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2913 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2914 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2915 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2917 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2918 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2922 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2924 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2925 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2926 to be changed after the fact :-)
2927 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2931 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2934 no version string after the -V.
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2938 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2940 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2941 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2946 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2949 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2953 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2956 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2957 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2958 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2959 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2960 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2961 I always welcome corrections!
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2965 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2971 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2974 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2975 * Documented this new switch.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2979 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2982 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2983 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2984 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2985 no packages use the old behavior.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2989 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2992 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2993 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2997 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3000 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3004 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3010 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3013 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3017 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3020 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3021 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3022 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3026 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3032 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3035 into the source package by accident.
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3039 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3042 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3043 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3044 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3045 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3046 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3047 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3052 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3056 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3057 inspired to implement some of it.
3058 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3062 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3065 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3069 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3072 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3073 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3077 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3080 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3081 have done.) (#17598)
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3085 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3091 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3097 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3100 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3104 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3107 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3108 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3112 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3115 argument processor in perl.
3116 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3117 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3118 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3119 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3123 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3126 type directories. (#16933)
3127 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3128 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3129 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3130 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3131 are supported. (#16935)
3132 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3137 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3140 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3144 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3148 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3149 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3150 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3151 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3152 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3153 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3157 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3160 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3161 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3163 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3164 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3165 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3166 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3167 a given package, or -i or -a.
3168 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3169 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3170 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3171 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3172 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3173 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3174 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3175 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3176 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3178 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3179 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3180 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3184 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3187 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3188 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3193 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3196 does not have a section.
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3200 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3203 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3204 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3205 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3209 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Fixed typo #16215.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3215 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3218 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3219 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3220 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3221 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3222 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3227 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3230 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3231 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3232 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3237 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3243 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3249 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3252 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3253 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3254 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3255 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3256 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3257 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3261 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3267 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3270 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3274 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3277 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3278 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3279 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3283 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3286 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3290 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3296 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3299 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3303 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3306 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3310 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3316 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3319 postinst, postrm, etc.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3323 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3329 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3332 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3333 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3334 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3335 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3336 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3340 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3343 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3344 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3348 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3351 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3355 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3358 installing package files into.
3359 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3364 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3368 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3372 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3378 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3381 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3385 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3388 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3389 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3390 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3391 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3395 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3397 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3398 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3399 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3400 multiple binary packages.
3401 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3402 should rebuild them with this version.
3403 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3407 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3410 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3414 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3417 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3421 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3424 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3425 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3426 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3427 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3428 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3429 debian/README.debian.
3430 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3431 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3432 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3433 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3434 in a few situations.)
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3438 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3444 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3450 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3453 * Fixed several man pages.
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3457 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3460 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3461 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3465 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3468 is ready for general use.
3469 * Added man pages for all commands.
3470 * Multiple binary package support.
3471 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3472 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3473 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3475 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3476 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3477 auto-installed as parameters.
3478 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3480 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3483 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3484 the package build directory it is to act on.
3485 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3486 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3487 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3491 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3493 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3494 ready to replace debstd.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400