1 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
4 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
6 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
7 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
11 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
13 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
17 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
19 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
24 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
26 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
31 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
33 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
34 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
38 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
41 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
45 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
48 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
51 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
52 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
56 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
62 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
65 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
69 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
72 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
73 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
74 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
76 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
78 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
79 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
80 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
84 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
87 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
92 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
95 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
96 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
97 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
102 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
108 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
114 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
117 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
118 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
119 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
120 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
121 associated -dbg packages.
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
125 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
128 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
132 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
135 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
139 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
142 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
146 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
149 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
154 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Typo. Closes: #207999
157 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
161 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
164 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
169 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
172 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
176 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
180 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
181 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
182 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
183 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
184 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
185 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
186 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
187 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
188 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
189 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
193 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
195 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
196 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
201 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
204 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
205 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
209 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
212 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
213 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
218 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
221 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
225 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
228 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
232 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
235 out section number. Closes: #204731
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
239 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
246 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
248 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
252 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
258 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Typo, Closes: #203907
261 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
262 removal. Closes: #204286
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
266 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
269 renaming. Closes: #203548
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
273 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
276 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
277 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
281 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
287 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
289 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
293 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
299 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
302 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
303 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
304 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
308 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
311 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
312 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
316 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
322 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
329 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
332 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
337 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
340 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
344 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
347 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
349 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
350 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
354 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
357 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
362 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
365 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
369 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
375 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
377 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
381 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
383 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
384 it break hard links (see #188663).
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
388 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
391 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
395 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
401 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
405 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
406 debconf-mergetemplates
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
410 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
413 pod2man. Closes: #184013
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
417 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
420 * Typo, Closes: #183267
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
424 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
426 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
427 * Update debhelper(1).
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
431 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
433 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
434 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
435 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
436 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
437 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
438 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
442 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
445 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
446 the shell. Closes: #178524
447 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
451 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
454 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
458 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
461 undocumented.7 links anymore.
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
465 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
467 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
468 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
469 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
470 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
471 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
476 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
479 files from installation.
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
483 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
486 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
487 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
491 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
494 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
498 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
501 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
505 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
511 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
517 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
521 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
522 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
524 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
528 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
531 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
532 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
533 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
534 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
538 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
540 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
541 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
545 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
548 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
549 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
553 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
557 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
562 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
568 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
572 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
573 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
574 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
579 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
582 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
583 practice. Closes: #163303
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
587 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
593 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
600 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
602 * The "reverse hangover" release.
603 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
605 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
606 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
607 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
608 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
609 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
613 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
616 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
621 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
627 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
634 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
637 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
642 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
648 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
654 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
660 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
667 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
670 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
671 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
672 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
673 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
678 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Typo, Closes: #155323
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
684 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
691 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
694 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
695 * Removed dh_installxaw.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
699 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
702 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
703 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
704 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
705 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
706 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
710 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
713 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
715 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
720 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
722 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
723 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
727 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
730 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
731 right thing. Closes: #150644
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
735 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
742 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
744 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
749 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
752 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
753 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
758 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
764 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
767 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
771 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
774 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
775 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
780 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
783 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
787 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
793 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
796 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
797 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
801 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
807 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Removing perl warning message.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
813 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
816 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
817 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
818 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
819 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
820 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
821 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
822 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
823 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
827 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
833 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
840 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
843 debconf-mergetemplate.
844 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
845 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
849 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
852 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
853 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
854 dh_install, which ...
855 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
856 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
857 mess, as it uses debian/install.
858 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
859 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
860 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
861 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
862 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
863 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
864 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
865 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
866 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
867 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
868 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
870 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
871 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
872 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
873 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
874 course there's -X ..)
875 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
876 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
877 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
879 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
880 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
881 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
882 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
883 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
888 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
894 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Typo, Closes: #139176
897 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
901 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
907 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
913 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
919 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
925 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
928 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
929 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
930 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
931 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
933 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
934 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
938 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
944 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Typo, Closes: #132454
947 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
951 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
954 upset. Closes: #131322
956 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
958 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
961 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
962 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
963 line, as well as in debian/rules.
964 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
965 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
966 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
967 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
968 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
969 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
970 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
971 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
972 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
973 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
974 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
975 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
977 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
981 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
984 - Better indenting of generated code.
985 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
989 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
991 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
993 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
994 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
995 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
996 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
997 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
998 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
999 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1003 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1006 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1010 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1013 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1014 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1015 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1016 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1017 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1018 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1019 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1020 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1021 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1022 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1023 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1024 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1025 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1026 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1027 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1032 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1038 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1041 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1042 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1046 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1049 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1050 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1054 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1060 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1063 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1064 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1065 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1066 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1067 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1072 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1078 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1081 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1085 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1088 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1093 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1099 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1102 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1106 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1112 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1116 Also some indentation fixes.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1120 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1123 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1124 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1125 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1126 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1127 Closes: #106514, #85520
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1131 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1137 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1143 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1149 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1155 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1161 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1164 change it in debhelper v4..
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1168 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1174 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1177 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1181 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1184 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1188 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1194 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1197 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1198 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1199 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1200 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1201 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1202 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1203 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1204 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1205 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1206 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1207 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1208 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1212 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1215 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1219 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1226 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1229 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1230 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1231 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1232 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1233 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1234 program those options go to. So, for example,
1235 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1236 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1237 something complex. Closes: #89311
1238 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1242 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1245 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1246 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1247 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1251 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1254 through loop. Closes: #98598
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1258 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Missing semi-colon.
1261 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1262 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1266 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1269 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1270 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1271 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1275 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1278 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1279 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1283 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1286 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1290 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1293 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1294 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1298 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1301 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1302 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1303 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1307 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1310 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1311 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1312 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1316 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1319 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1323 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1329 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1335 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1341 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1347 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1350 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1354 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1357 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1358 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1359 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1360 followed. Closes: #85483
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1364 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1366 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1367 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1368 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1372 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1375 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1376 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1377 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1378 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1379 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1380 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1381 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1382 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1383 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1384 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1385 Closes: #88464, #77743
1386 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1387 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1388 us to deal with that gracefully.
1389 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1391 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1392 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1393 a while, Closes: #51225
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1397 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1403 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1406 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1410 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1414 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1419 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1422 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1423 don't make packlist files.
1424 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1425 debhelper coding standards.
1426 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1427 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1431 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1434 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1438 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1441 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1442 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1443 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1444 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1445 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1446 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1447 but is mildly deprecated.
1448 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1449 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1450 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1451 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1452 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1453 switching to statoverrides..
1454 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1455 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1456 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1457 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1458 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1459 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1461 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1462 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1463 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1464 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1465 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1466 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1467 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1468 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1469 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1471 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1472 variable names, pod man pages).
1473 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1474 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1475 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1476 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1477 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1478 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1479 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1483 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1489 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1496 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1499 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1503 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1505 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1506 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1507 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1511 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1513 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1514 they were previously ignored.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1518 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1520 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1521 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1525 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1527 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1528 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1529 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1533 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1535 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1539 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1541 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1542 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1546 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1548 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1549 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1550 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1551 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1552 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1553 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1554 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1555 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1556 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1557 it is an obsolete program.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1561 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1563 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1567 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1571 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1573 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1577 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1579 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1581 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1583 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1587 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1593 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * typo: Closes, #78567
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1599 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1605 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1611 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1614 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1615 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1616 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1617 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1618 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1622 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1625 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1630 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1633 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1634 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1635 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1636 backwards-compatability.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1640 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1643 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1644 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1645 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1646 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1647 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1648 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1650 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1651 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1652 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1654 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1656 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1657 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1658 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1659 should now be raised to severity important..
1660 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1661 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1665 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1668 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1673 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1679 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1685 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1691 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1698 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1701 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1702 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1703 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1704 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1708 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1714 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1717 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1718 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1719 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1720 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1721 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1722 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1727 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1730 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1734 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1740 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1743 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1748 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1751 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1752 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1753 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1754 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1758 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1762 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1765 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1768 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1769 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1772 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1774 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1775 the TODO entry about it.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1779 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1786 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1789 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1790 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1794 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1797 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1798 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1799 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1800 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1804 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1810 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1817 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1820 (this appears to be logal).
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1824 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1827 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1828 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1829 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1830 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1834 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1840 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1843 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1844 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1845 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1846 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1850 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1856 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1859 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1863 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1870 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1873 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1874 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1875 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1880 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1887 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1893 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1896 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1897 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1898 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1899 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1900 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1901 notice until v2 is complete.
1902 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1903 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1904 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1905 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1906 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1907 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1909 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1910 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1911 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1912 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1916 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1922 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1929 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1932 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1943 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1946 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1947 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1948 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1949 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1954 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1957 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1958 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1959 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1964 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1967 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1968 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1972 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1975 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1979 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1982 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1986 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1993 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1996 depend on the build and install targets.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2000 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2003 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2007 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2014 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2020 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2026 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2029 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2030 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2031 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2032 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2033 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2034 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2036 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2037 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2038 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2039 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2040 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2041 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2042 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2046 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2052 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2058 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2061 right place. Closes: #55065
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2065 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2072 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2075 * Copyright date updates.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2079 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2082 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2087 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2093 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2100 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2106 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2112 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2118 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2121 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2122 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2123 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2124 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2125 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2126 bits until all files have been registered.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2130 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_installmanpages:
2133 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2134 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2135 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2136 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2137 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2138 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2139 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2140 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2141 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2142 otherwise change the result at all.
2144 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2145 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2146 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2147 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2148 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2153 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2159 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2162 act on files that don't exist.
2163 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2164 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2165 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2167 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2168 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2169 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2170 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2174 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2180 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2186 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2189 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2193 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2196 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2198 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2199 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2200 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2204 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2207 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2208 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2209 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2210 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2211 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2212 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2213 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2215 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2217 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2221 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2228 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2234 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2240 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2243 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2247 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2253 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2259 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2262 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2263 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2264 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2265 I made some changes, though:
2266 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2267 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2268 that is a clear violation of policy.
2269 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2270 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2271 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2272 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2273 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2274 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2275 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2276 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2277 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2279 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2283 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2289 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2292 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2296 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2299 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2300 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2305 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2311 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2318 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2321 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2322 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2323 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2324 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2325 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2326 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2327 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2331 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2337 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2341 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2342 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2346 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2352 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2355 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2359 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2362 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2363 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2367 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2369 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2374 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2378 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2382 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2385 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2386 for the dependancies to be generated.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2390 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2393 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2397 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2400 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2401 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2402 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2407 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2410 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2411 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2415 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2421 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2427 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2430 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2434 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2440 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2443 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2444 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2445 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2446 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2447 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2448 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2449 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2450 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2451 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2452 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2453 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2454 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2458 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2461 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2462 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2464 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2465 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2466 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2467 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2468 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2469 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2471 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2472 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2476 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2479 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2483 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2490 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2493 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2498 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2501 for building debhelper.
2502 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2506 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2513 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2516 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2520 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2523 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2524 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2525 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2526 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2527 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2528 it's always available.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2532 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2535 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2536 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2537 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2541 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2544 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2545 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2549 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2555 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2558 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2562 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2568 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2571 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2572 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2573 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2577 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2580 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2585 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2588 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2589 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2591 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2592 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2596 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2602 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2608 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2611 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2615 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2618 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2619 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2621 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2625 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2628 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2629 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2630 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2634 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2637 things if CDPATH is set.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2641 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2647 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2650 seems to make sense for the transition.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2654 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2657 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2662 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2665 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2666 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2670 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2673 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2677 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2680 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2681 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2682 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2683 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2687 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2693 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2696 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2697 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2698 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2699 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2700 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2701 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2702 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2703 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2704 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2705 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2710 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2713 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2714 * README: mention doc/v2
2715 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2716 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2720 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2722 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2723 be using this script RSN.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2727 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2730 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2731 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2732 more than 1 init script.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2736 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2739 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2743 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Changed perl version detection.
2746 * Changed call to find.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2750 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2753 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2755 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2760 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Really include dh_installpam.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2766 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2769 * Wrote man page for same.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2773 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2776 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2777 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2782 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2789 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2792 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2793 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2794 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2795 x bit was being set!
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2799 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2802 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2803 well. (Closes: 38900)
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2807 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2810 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2811 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2815 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2821 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2828 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2834 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2837 help from Julian Gilbey.
2838 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2839 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2840 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2841 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2842 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2843 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2844 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2849 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2855 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2862 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2868 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2874 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2877 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2881 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2884 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2888 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2891 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2895 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2901 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2904 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2908 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2914 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2920 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2923 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2924 may be deleted. (#35845)
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2928 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Various man page enhancements.
2931 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2936 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2939 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2940 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2944 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2947 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2948 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2949 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2951 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2952 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2957 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2963 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Another very minor typo fix.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2969 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Very minor typo fix.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2975 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2978 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2979 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2983 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2989 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2992 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2993 variables properly (#34850).
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2997 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3003 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3006 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3007 (automatically generated by build process).
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3011 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3013 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3017 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3020 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3021 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3023 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3027 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3030 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3034 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * README: minor typo fix.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3040 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3043 leave it at that. :-)
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3047 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3053 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3059 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3062 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3063 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3064 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3068 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3071 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3075 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3078 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3082 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3085 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3086 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3087 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3088 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3092 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3095 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3096 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3097 Craig Small for spotting this.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3101 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3104 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3105 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3109 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3115 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3118 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3122 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3124 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3125 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3126 working on the last version of debhelper.
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3130 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3133 being made. (#23255)
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3137 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3143 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3146 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3150 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3153 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3154 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3155 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3156 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3160 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3163 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3164 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3165 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3166 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3168 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3169 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3171 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3176 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3182 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3188 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3191 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3192 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3193 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3194 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3195 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3196 suidregister actually supports it.
3197 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3198 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3202 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3209 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3212 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3213 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3214 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3215 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3216 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3217 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3218 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3222 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3224 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3225 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3229 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3232 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3233 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3234 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3235 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3239 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3242 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3244 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3245 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3246 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3247 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3248 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3249 effect, either. (#30118)
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3253 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3259 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3262 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3263 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3267 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3273 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3276 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3277 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3278 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3279 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3283 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3286 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3287 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3291 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3297 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3300 packages, painlessly.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3304 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3310 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3316 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3322 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * The perl conversion is complete.
3326 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3328 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3329 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3330 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3335 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3338 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3339 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3340 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3344 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3347 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3349 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3351 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3352 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3356 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3359 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3360 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3364 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3370 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3373 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3374 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3375 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3376 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3377 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3381 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3384 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3385 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3386 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3387 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3391 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3394 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3398 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3401 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3402 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3403 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3404 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3405 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3406 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3407 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3408 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3412 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3418 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3421 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3422 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3423 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3428 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3431 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3435 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3438 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3442 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3445 sections of shared libraries.
3446 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3447 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3448 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3449 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3450 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3451 things you don't want them to.
3452 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3453 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3457 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3460 shared libraries. (#26414)
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3464 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3466 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3467 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3468 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3469 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3473 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3477 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3479 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3480 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3481 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3482 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3483 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3487 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3490 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3494 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3497 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3498 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3503 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3506 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3510 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3513 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3514 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3515 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3516 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3517 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3519 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3520 remove debian/files properly.
3521 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3522 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3523 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3524 * Removed bogus menu file.
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3528 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3531 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3535 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3538 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3539 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3540 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3541 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3542 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3543 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3547 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3550 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3551 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3552 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3553 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3557 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3564 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3567 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3568 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3570 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3571 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3572 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3573 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3574 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3575 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3579 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3582 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3583 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3584 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3585 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3586 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3587 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3588 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3589 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3590 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3591 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3592 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3593 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3594 passed any switches.
3595 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3599 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3602 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3603 at all for a long while.
3604 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3605 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3606 large chunks in the process.
3607 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3608 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3609 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3614 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3617 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3619 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3624 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3627 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3628 that don't always have the same files in them.
3629 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3630 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3631 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3635 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3639 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3640 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3641 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3642 updating 27 man pages.
3643 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3644 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3645 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3646 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3647 programs act on. (#25247)
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3651 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3655 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3656 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3657 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3658 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3659 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3660 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3665 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3672 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3679 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3682 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3686 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3692 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3695 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3696 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3697 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3698 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3699 package by accident.
3700 * Is version 1.0 next?
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3704 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3707 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3708 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3712 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3715 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3716 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3717 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3718 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3719 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3721 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3726 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3729 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3730 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3734 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3737 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3741 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3744 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3745 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3750 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3756 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3759 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3760 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3765 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3771 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3774 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3775 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3776 past week. Thanks, guys!
3778 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3779 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3780 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3781 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3782 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3783 would do in the same situation.
3784 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3785 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3787 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3789 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3790 permissions changed.
3791 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3792 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3793 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3794 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3795 files are treated identically.
3796 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3797 * Minor man page fixes.
3798 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3799 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3800 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3804 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3807 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3808 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3809 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3810 use -X multiple times, too.
3811 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3812 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3816 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3819 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3820 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3824 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3827 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3831 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3834 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3835 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3836 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3837 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3838 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3839 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3840 shape if you're starting a new package.
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3844 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3847 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3851 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3854 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3855 because of missing symlinks.
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3859 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3865 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3868 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3869 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3870 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3871 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3872 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3874 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3875 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3879 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3881 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3882 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3883 to be changed after the fact :-)
3884 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3888 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3891 no version string after the -V.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3895 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3897 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3898 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3903 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3906 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3910 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3913 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3914 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3915 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3916 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3917 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3918 I always welcome corrections!
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3922 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3928 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3931 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3932 * Documented this new switch.
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3936 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3939 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3940 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3941 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3942 no packages use the old behavior.
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3946 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3949 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3950 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3954 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3957 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3961 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3967 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3970 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3974 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3977 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3978 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3979 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3983 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3989 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3992 into the source package by accident.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3996 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3999 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4000 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4001 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4002 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4003 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4004 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4009 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4013 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4014 inspired to implement some of it.
4015 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4019 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4022 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4026 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4029 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4030 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4034 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4037 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4038 have done.) (#17598)
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4042 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4048 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4054 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4057 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4061 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4064 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4065 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4069 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4072 argument processor in perl.
4073 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4074 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4075 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4076 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4080 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4083 type directories. (#16933)
4084 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4085 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4086 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4087 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4088 are supported. (#16935)
4089 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4094 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4097 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4101 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4105 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4106 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4107 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4108 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4109 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4110 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4114 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4117 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4118 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4120 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4121 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4122 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4123 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4124 a given package, or -i or -a.
4125 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4126 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4127 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4128 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4129 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4130 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4131 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4132 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4133 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4135 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4136 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4137 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4141 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4144 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4145 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4150 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4153 does not have a section.
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4157 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4160 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4161 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4162 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4166 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * Fixed typo #16215.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4172 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4175 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4176 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4177 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4178 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4179 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4184 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4187 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4188 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4189 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4194 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4200 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4206 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4209 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4210 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4211 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4212 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4213 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4214 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4218 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4224 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4227 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4231 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4234 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4235 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4236 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4240 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4243 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4247 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4253 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4256 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4260 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4263 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4267 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4273 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4276 postinst, postrm, etc.
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4280 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4286 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4289 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4290 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4291 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4292 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4293 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4297 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4300 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4301 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4305 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4308 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4312 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4315 installing package files into.
4316 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4321 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4325 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4329 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4335 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4338 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4342 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4345 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4346 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4347 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4348 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4352 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4354 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4355 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4356 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4357 multiple binary packages.
4358 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4359 should rebuild them with this version.
4360 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4364 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4367 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4371 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4374 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4378 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4381 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4382 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4383 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4384 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4385 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4386 debian/README.debian.
4387 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4388 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4389 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4390 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4391 in a few situations.)
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4395 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4401 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4407 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4410 * Fixed several man pages.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4414 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4417 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4418 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4422 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4425 is ready for general use.
4426 * Added man pages for all commands.
4427 * Multiple binary package support.
4428 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4429 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4430 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4432 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4433 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4434 auto-installed as parameters.
4435 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4437 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4440 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4441 the package build directory it is to act on.
4442 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4443 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4444 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4448 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4450 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4451 ready to replace debstd.
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400