1 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:08:56 -0500
7 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
13 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
15 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
16 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
17 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
18 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
19 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
20 associated -dbg packages.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
24 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
26 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
27 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
31 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
34 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
38 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
41 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
45 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
48 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
53 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Typo. Closes: #207999
56 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
60 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
63 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
68 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
71 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
75 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
79 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
80 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
81 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
82 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
83 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
84 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
85 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
86 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
87 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
88 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
92 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
95 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
100 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
103 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
104 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
108 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
111 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
112 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
117 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
120 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
124 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
127 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
131 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
134 out section number. Closes: #204731
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
138 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
145 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
151 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
157 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Typo, Closes: #203907
160 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
161 removal. Closes: #204286
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
165 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
168 renaming. Closes: #203548
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
172 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
175 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
176 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
180 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
186 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
192 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
198 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
200 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
201 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
202 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
203 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
207 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
210 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
211 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
215 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
221 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
223 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
228 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
231 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
236 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
239 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
243 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
246 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
248 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
249 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
253 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
256 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
261 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
264 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
268 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
270 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
274 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
276 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
280 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
283 it break hard links (see #188663).
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
287 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
290 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
294 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
300 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
304 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
305 debconf-mergetemplates
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
309 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
312 pod2man. Closes: #184013
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
316 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
319 * Typo, Closes: #183267
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
323 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
326 * Update debhelper(1).
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
330 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
332 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
333 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
334 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
335 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
336 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
337 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
341 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
343 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
344 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
345 the shell. Closes: #178524
346 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
350 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
353 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
357 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
360 undocumented.7 links anymore.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
364 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
366 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
367 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
368 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
369 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
370 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
375 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
378 files from installation.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
382 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
385 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
386 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
390 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
393 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
397 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
400 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
404 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
410 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
416 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
420 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
421 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
423 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
427 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
430 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
431 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
432 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
433 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
437 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
439 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
440 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
444 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
447 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
448 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
452 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
456 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
461 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
467 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
471 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
472 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
473 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
478 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
481 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
482 practice. Closes: #163303
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
486 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
492 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
499 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
501 * The "reverse hangover" release.
502 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
504 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
505 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
506 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
507 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
508 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
512 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
515 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
520 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
526 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
533 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
536 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
541 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
547 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
553 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
559 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
566 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
569 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
570 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
571 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
572 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
577 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Typo, Closes: #155323
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
583 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
590 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
593 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
594 * Removed dh_installxaw.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
598 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
601 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
602 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
603 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
604 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
605 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
609 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
612 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
614 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
619 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
621 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
622 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
626 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
629 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
630 right thing. Closes: #150644
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
634 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
641 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
643 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
648 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
651 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
652 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
657 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
663 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
666 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
670 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
673 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
674 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
679 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
682 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
686 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
692 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
695 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
696 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
700 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
706 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Removing perl warning message.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
712 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
715 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
716 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
717 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
718 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
719 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
720 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
721 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
722 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
726 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
732 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
739 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
742 debconf-mergetemplate.
743 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
744 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
748 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
751 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
752 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
753 dh_install, which ...
754 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
755 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
756 mess, as it uses debian/install.
757 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
758 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
759 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
760 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
761 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
762 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
763 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
764 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
765 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
766 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
767 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
769 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
770 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
771 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
772 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
773 course there's -X ..)
774 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
775 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
776 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
778 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
779 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
780 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
781 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
782 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
787 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
793 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Typo, Closes: #139176
796 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
800 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
806 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
812 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
814 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
818 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
824 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
827 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
828 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
829 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
830 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
832 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
833 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
837 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
843 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Typo, Closes: #132454
846 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
850 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
853 upset. Closes: #131322
855 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
857 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
860 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
861 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
862 line, as well as in debian/rules.
863 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
864 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
865 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
866 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
867 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
868 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
869 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
870 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
871 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
872 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
873 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
874 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
876 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
880 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
883 - Better indenting of generated code.
884 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
888 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
892 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
893 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
894 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
895 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
896 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
897 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
898 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
902 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
905 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
909 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
912 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
913 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
914 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
915 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
916 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
917 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
918 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
919 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
920 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
921 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
922 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
923 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
924 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
925 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
926 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
931 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
937 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
940 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
941 * fixed dh_testdir man page
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
945 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Typo, Closes: #122679
948 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
949 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
953 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
959 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
962 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
963 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
964 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
965 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
966 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
971 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
973 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
977 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
980 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
984 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
987 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
992 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Typo, Closes: #114135
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
998 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1001 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1005 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1011 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1015 Also some indentation fixes.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1019 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1022 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1023 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1024 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1025 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1026 Closes: #106514, #85520
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1030 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1036 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1042 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1048 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1054 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1060 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1063 change it in debhelper v4..
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1067 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1073 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1076 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1080 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1083 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1087 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1093 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1096 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1097 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1098 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1099 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1100 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1101 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1102 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1103 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1104 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1105 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1106 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1107 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1111 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1114 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1118 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1125 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1128 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1129 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1130 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1131 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1132 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1133 program those options go to. So, for example,
1134 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1135 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1136 something complex. Closes: #89311
1137 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1141 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1144 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1145 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1146 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1150 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1153 through loop. Closes: #98598
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1157 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Missing semi-colon.
1160 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1161 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1165 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1168 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1169 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1170 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1174 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1177 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1178 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1182 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1185 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1189 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1192 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1193 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1197 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1200 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1201 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1202 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1206 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1209 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1210 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1211 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1215 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1218 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1222 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1228 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1234 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1240 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1246 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1249 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1253 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1256 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1257 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1258 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1259 followed. Closes: #85483
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1263 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1265 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1266 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1267 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1271 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1274 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1275 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1276 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1277 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1278 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1279 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1280 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1281 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1282 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1283 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1284 Closes: #88464, #77743
1285 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1286 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1287 us to deal with that gracefully.
1288 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1290 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1291 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1292 a while, Closes: #51225
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1296 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1302 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1305 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1309 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1313 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1318 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1321 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1322 don't make packlist files.
1323 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1324 debhelper coding standards.
1325 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1326 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1330 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1333 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1337 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1340 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1341 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1342 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1343 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1344 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1345 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1346 but is mildly deprecated.
1347 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1348 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1349 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1350 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1351 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1352 switching to statoverrides..
1353 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1354 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1355 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1356 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1357 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1358 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1360 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1361 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1362 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1363 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1364 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1365 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1366 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1367 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1368 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1370 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1371 variable names, pod man pages).
1372 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1373 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1374 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1375 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1376 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1377 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1378 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1382 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1388 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1395 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1398 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1402 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1404 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1405 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1406 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1410 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1412 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1413 they were previously ignored.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1417 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1419 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1420 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1424 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1426 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1427 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1428 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1432 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1434 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1438 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1440 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1441 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1445 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1447 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1448 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1449 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1450 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1451 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1452 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1453 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1454 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1455 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1456 it is an obsolete program.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1460 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1462 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1466 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1470 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1472 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1476 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1478 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1480 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1482 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1486 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1492 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * typo: Closes, #78567
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1498 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1504 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1510 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1513 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1514 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1515 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1516 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1517 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1521 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1524 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1529 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1532 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1533 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1534 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1535 backwards-compatability.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1539 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1542 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1543 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1544 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1545 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1546 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1547 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1549 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1550 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1551 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1553 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1555 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1556 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1557 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1558 should now be raised to severity important..
1559 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1560 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1564 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1567 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1572 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1578 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1584 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1590 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1597 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1600 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1601 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1602 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1603 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1607 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1613 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1616 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1617 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1618 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1619 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1620 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1621 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1626 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1629 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1633 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1639 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1642 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1647 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1650 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1651 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1652 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1653 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1657 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1661 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1664 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1667 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1668 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1671 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1673 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1674 the TODO entry about it.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1678 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1685 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1688 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1689 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1693 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1696 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1697 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1698 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1699 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1703 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1709 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1716 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1719 (this appears to be logal).
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1723 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1726 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1727 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1728 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1729 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1733 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1739 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1742 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1743 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1744 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1745 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1749 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1755 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1758 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1762 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1772 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1773 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1774 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1779 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1786 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1792 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1795 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1796 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1797 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1798 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1799 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1800 notice until v2 is complete.
1801 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1802 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1803 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1804 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1805 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1806 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1808 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1809 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1810 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1811 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1821 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1828 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1831 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1835 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1842 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1845 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1846 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1847 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1848 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1853 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1856 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1857 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1858 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1863 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1866 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1867 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1871 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1874 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1878 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1881 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1885 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1892 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1895 depend on the build and install targets.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1899 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1902 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1913 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1919 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1925 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1928 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1929 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1930 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1931 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1932 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1933 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1935 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1936 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1937 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1938 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1939 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1940 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1941 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1945 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1951 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1957 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1960 right place. Closes: #55065
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1964 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1971 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1974 * Copyright date updates.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1978 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1981 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1986 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1992 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1999 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2005 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2011 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2017 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2020 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2021 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2022 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2023 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2024 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2025 bits until all files have been registered.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2029 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_installmanpages:
2032 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2033 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2034 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2035 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2036 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2037 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2038 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2039 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2040 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2041 otherwise change the result at all.
2043 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2044 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2045 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2046 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2047 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2052 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2058 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2061 act on files that don't exist.
2062 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2063 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2064 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2066 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2067 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2068 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2069 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2073 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2079 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2085 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2088 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2092 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2095 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2097 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2098 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2099 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2103 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2106 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2107 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2108 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2109 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2110 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2111 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2112 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2114 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2116 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2120 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2127 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2133 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2139 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2142 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2146 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2152 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2158 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2161 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2162 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2163 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2164 I made some changes, though:
2165 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2166 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2167 that is a clear violation of policy.
2168 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2169 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2170 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2171 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2172 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2173 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2174 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2175 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2176 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2178 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2182 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2188 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2191 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2195 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2198 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2199 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2204 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2210 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2217 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2220 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2221 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2222 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2223 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2224 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2225 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2226 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2230 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2236 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2240 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2241 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2245 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2251 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2254 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2258 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2261 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2262 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2266 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2268 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2273 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2277 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2281 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2284 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2285 for the dependancies to be generated.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2289 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2292 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2296 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2299 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2300 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2301 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2306 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2309 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2310 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2314 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2320 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2326 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2329 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2333 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2339 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2342 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2343 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2344 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2345 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2346 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2347 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2348 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2349 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2350 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2351 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2352 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2353 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2357 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2360 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2361 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2363 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2364 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2365 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2366 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2367 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2368 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2370 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2371 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2375 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2378 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2382 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2389 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2392 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2397 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2400 for building debhelper.
2401 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2405 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2412 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2415 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2419 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2422 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2423 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2424 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2425 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2426 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2427 it's always available.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2431 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2434 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2435 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2436 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2440 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2443 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2444 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2448 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2454 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2457 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2461 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2467 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2470 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2471 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2472 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2476 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2479 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2484 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2487 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2488 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2490 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2491 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2495 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2501 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2507 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2510 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2514 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2517 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2518 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2520 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2524 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2527 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2528 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2529 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2533 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2536 things if CDPATH is set.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2540 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2546 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2549 seems to make sense for the transition.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2553 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2556 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2561 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2564 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2565 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2569 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2572 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2576 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2579 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2580 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2581 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2582 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2586 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2592 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2595 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2596 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2597 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2598 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2599 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2600 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2601 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2602 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2603 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2604 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2609 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2612 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2613 * README: mention doc/v2
2614 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2615 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2619 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2621 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2622 be using this script RSN.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2626 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2629 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2630 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2631 more than 1 init script.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2635 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2638 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2642 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Changed perl version detection.
2645 * Changed call to find.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2649 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2652 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2654 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2659 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Really include dh_installpam.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2665 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2668 * Wrote man page for same.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2672 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2675 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2676 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2681 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2688 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2691 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2692 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2693 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2694 x bit was being set!
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2698 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2701 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2702 well. (Closes: 38900)
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2706 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2709 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2710 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2714 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2720 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2727 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2733 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2736 help from Julian Gilbey.
2737 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2738 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2739 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2740 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2741 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2742 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2743 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2748 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2754 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2761 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2767 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2773 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2776 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2780 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2783 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2787 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2790 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2794 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2800 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2803 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2807 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2813 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2819 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2822 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2823 may be deleted. (#35845)
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2827 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Various man page enhancements.
2830 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2835 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2838 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2839 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2843 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2846 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2847 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2848 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2850 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2851 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2856 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2862 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Another very minor typo fix.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2868 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Very minor typo fix.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2874 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2877 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2878 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2882 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2888 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2891 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2892 variables properly (#34850).
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2896 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2902 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2905 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2906 (automatically generated by build process).
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2910 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2912 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2916 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2919 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2920 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2922 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2926 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2929 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2933 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * README: minor typo fix.
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2939 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2942 leave it at that. :-)
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2946 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2952 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2958 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2961 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2962 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2963 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2967 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2970 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2974 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2977 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2981 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2984 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2985 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2986 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2987 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2991 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2994 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2995 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2996 Craig Small for spotting this.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3000 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3003 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3004 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3008 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3014 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3017 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3021 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3023 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3024 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3025 working on the last version of debhelper.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3029 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3032 being made. (#23255)
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3036 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3042 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3045 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3049 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3052 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3053 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3054 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3055 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3059 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3062 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3063 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3064 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3065 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3067 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3068 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3070 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3075 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3081 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3087 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3090 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3091 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3092 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3093 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3094 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3095 suidregister actually supports it.
3096 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3097 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3101 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3108 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3111 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3112 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3113 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3114 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3115 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3116 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3117 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3121 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3123 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3124 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3128 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3131 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3132 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3133 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3134 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3138 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3141 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3143 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3144 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3145 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3146 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3147 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3148 effect, either. (#30118)
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3152 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3158 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3161 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3162 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3166 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3172 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3175 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3176 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3177 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3178 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3182 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3185 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3186 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3190 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3196 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3199 packages, painlessly.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3203 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3209 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3215 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3221 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * The perl conversion is complete.
3225 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3227 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3228 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3229 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3234 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3237 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3238 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3239 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3243 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3246 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3248 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3250 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3251 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3255 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3258 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3259 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3263 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3269 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3272 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3273 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3274 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3275 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3276 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3280 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3283 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3284 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3285 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3286 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3290 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3293 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3297 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3300 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3301 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3302 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3303 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3304 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3305 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3306 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3307 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3311 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3317 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3320 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3321 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3322 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3327 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3330 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3334 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3337 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3341 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3344 sections of shared libraries.
3345 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3346 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3347 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3348 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3349 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3350 things you don't want them to.
3351 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3352 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3356 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3359 shared libraries. (#26414)
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3363 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3365 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3366 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3367 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3368 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3372 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3376 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3378 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3379 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3380 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3381 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3382 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3386 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3389 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3393 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3396 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3397 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3402 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3405 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3409 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3412 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3413 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3414 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3415 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3416 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3418 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3419 remove debian/files properly.
3420 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3421 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3422 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3423 * Removed bogus menu file.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3427 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3430 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3434 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3437 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3438 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3439 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3440 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3441 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3442 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3446 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3449 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3450 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3451 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3452 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3456 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3463 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3466 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3467 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3469 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3470 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3471 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3472 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3473 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3474 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3478 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3481 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3482 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3483 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3484 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3485 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3486 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3487 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3488 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3489 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3490 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3491 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3492 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3493 passed any switches.
3494 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3498 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3501 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3502 at all for a long while.
3503 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3504 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3505 large chunks in the process.
3506 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3507 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3508 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3513 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3516 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3518 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3523 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3526 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3527 that don't always have the same files in them.
3528 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3529 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3530 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3534 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3538 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3539 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3540 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3541 updating 27 man pages.
3542 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3543 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3544 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3545 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3546 programs act on. (#25247)
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3550 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3554 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3555 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3556 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3557 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3558 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3559 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3564 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3571 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3578 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3581 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3585 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3591 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3594 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3595 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3596 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3597 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3598 package by accident.
3599 * Is version 1.0 next?
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3603 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3606 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3607 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3611 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3614 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3615 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3616 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3617 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3618 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3620 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3625 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3628 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3629 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3633 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3636 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3640 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3643 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3644 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3649 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3655 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3658 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3659 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3664 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3670 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3673 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3674 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3675 past week. Thanks, guys!
3677 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3678 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3679 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3680 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3681 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3682 would do in the same situation.
3683 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3684 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3686 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3688 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3689 permissions changed.
3690 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3691 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3692 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3693 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3694 files are treated identically.
3695 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3696 * Minor man page fixes.
3697 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3698 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3699 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3703 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3706 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3707 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3708 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3709 use -X multiple times, too.
3710 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3711 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3715 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3718 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3719 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3723 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3726 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3730 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3733 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3734 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3735 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3736 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3737 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3738 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3739 shape if you're starting a new package.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3743 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3746 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3750 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3753 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3754 because of missing symlinks.
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3758 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3764 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3767 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3768 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3769 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3770 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3771 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3773 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3774 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3778 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3780 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3781 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3782 to be changed after the fact :-)
3783 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3787 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3789 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3790 no version string after the -V.
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3794 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3796 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3797 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3802 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3805 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3809 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3812 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3813 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3814 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3815 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3816 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3817 I always welcome corrections!
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3821 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3827 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3830 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3831 * Documented this new switch.
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3835 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3838 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3839 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3840 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3841 no packages use the old behavior.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3845 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3848 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3849 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3853 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3856 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3860 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3866 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3869 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3873 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3876 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3877 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3878 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3882 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3888 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3891 into the source package by accident.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3895 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3898 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3899 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3900 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3901 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3902 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3903 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3908 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3912 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3913 inspired to implement some of it.
3914 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3918 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3921 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3925 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3928 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3929 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3933 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3936 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3937 have done.) (#17598)
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3941 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3947 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3953 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3956 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3960 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3963 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3964 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3968 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3971 argument processor in perl.
3972 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3973 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3974 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3975 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3979 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3982 type directories. (#16933)
3983 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3984 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3985 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3986 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3987 are supported. (#16935)
3988 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3993 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3996 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4000 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4004 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4005 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4006 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4007 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4008 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4009 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4013 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4016 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4017 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4019 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4020 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4021 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4022 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4023 a given package, or -i or -a.
4024 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4025 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4026 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4027 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4028 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4029 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4030 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4031 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4032 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4034 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4035 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4036 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4040 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4043 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4044 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4049 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4052 does not have a section.
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4056 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4059 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4060 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4061 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4065 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * Fixed typo #16215.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4071 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4074 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4075 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4076 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4077 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4078 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4083 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4086 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4087 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4088 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4093 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4099 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4105 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4108 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4109 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4110 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4111 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4112 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4113 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4117 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4123 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4126 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4130 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4133 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4134 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4135 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4139 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4142 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4146 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4152 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4155 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4159 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4162 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4166 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4172 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4175 postinst, postrm, etc.
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4179 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4185 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4188 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4189 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4190 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4191 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4192 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4196 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4199 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4200 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4204 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4207 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4211 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4214 installing package files into.
4215 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4220 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4224 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4228 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4234 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4237 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4241 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4244 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4245 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4246 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4247 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4251 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4253 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4254 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4255 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4256 multiple binary packages.
4257 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4258 should rebuild them with this version.
4259 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4263 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4266 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4270 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4273 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4277 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4280 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4281 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4282 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4283 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4284 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4285 debian/README.debian.
4286 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4287 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4288 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4289 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4290 in a few situations.)
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4294 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4300 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4306 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4309 * Fixed several man pages.
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4313 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4316 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4317 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4321 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4324 is ready for general use.
4325 * Added man pages for all commands.
4326 * Multiple binary package support.
4327 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4328 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4329 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4331 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4332 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4333 auto-installed as parameters.
4334 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4336 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4339 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4340 the package build directory it is to act on.
4341 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4342 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4343 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4347 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4349 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4350 ready to replace debstd.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400