1 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
4 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
5 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
6 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
7 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
8 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
9 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
11 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
12 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
13 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
14 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
15 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
16 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
17 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
18 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
19 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
20 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
21 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
22 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
23 in the others, and added a few new tests.
24 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
25 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
26 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
30 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
37 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
40 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
44 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
47 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
51 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
54 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
58 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
61 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
65 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
71 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
77 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
83 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
86 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
87 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
88 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
92 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
95 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
99 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
102 but occasionally right and necessary.
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
106 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
109 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
110 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
111 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
112 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
113 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937a
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
117 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
120 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
122 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
123 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
124 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
125 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
126 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
127 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
128 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
129 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
130 postinst scripts for udebs.
131 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
135 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
138 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
140 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
141 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
145 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
151 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
153 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
158 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
160 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
165 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
168 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
172 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
175 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
179 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
182 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
185 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
186 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
190 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
196 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
199 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
203 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
206 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
207 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
208 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
210 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
212 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
213 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
214 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
218 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
221 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
226 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
229 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
230 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
231 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
236 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
242 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
248 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
251 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
252 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
253 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
254 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
255 associated -dbg packages.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
259 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
262 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
266 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
269 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
273 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
276 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
280 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
282 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
283 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
288 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Typo. Closes: #207999
291 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
295 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
298 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
303 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
306 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
310 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
314 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
315 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
316 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
317 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
318 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
319 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
320 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
321 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
322 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
323 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
327 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
330 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
335 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
338 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
339 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
343 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
345 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
346 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
347 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
352 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
355 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
359 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
362 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
366 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
369 out section number. Closes: #204731
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
373 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
380 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
386 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
392 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Typo, Closes: #203907
395 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
396 removal. Closes: #204286
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
400 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
403 renaming. Closes: #203548
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
407 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
410 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
411 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
415 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
421 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
427 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
433 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
436 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
437 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
438 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
442 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
445 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
446 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
450 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
456 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
463 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
466 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
471 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
474 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
478 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
481 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
483 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
484 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
488 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
491 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
496 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
499 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
503 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
509 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
511 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
515 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
518 it break hard links (see #188663).
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
522 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
525 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
529 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
535 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
539 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
540 debconf-mergetemplates
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
544 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
547 pod2man. Closes: #184013
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
551 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
554 * Typo, Closes: #183267
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
558 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
561 * Update debhelper(1).
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
565 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
567 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
568 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
569 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
570 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
571 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
572 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
576 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
579 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
580 the shell. Closes: #178524
581 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
585 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
588 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
592 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
595 undocumented.7 links anymore.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
599 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
601 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
602 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
603 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
604 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
605 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
610 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
613 files from installation.
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
617 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
620 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
621 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
625 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
628 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
632 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
635 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
639 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
645 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
651 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
655 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
656 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
658 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
662 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
665 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
666 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
667 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
668 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
672 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
674 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
675 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
679 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
682 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
683 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
687 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
691 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
696 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
702 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
706 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
707 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
708 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
713 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
716 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
717 practice. Closes: #163303
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
721 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
727 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
734 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
736 * The "reverse hangover" release.
737 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
739 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
740 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
741 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
742 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
743 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
747 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
750 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
755 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
761 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
768 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
771 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
776 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
782 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
788 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
794 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
801 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
804 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
805 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
806 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
807 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
812 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
814 * Typo, Closes: #155323
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
818 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
825 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
828 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
829 * Removed dh_installxaw.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
833 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
836 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
837 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
838 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
839 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
840 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
844 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
847 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
849 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
854 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
856 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
857 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
861 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
864 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
865 right thing. Closes: #150644
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
869 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
876 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
878 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
883 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
886 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
887 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
892 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
898 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
901 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
905 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
908 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
909 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
914 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
917 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
921 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
923 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
927 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
930 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
931 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
935 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
941 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Removing perl warning message.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
947 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
950 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
951 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
952 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
953 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
954 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
955 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
956 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
957 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
961 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
967 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
974 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
977 debconf-mergetemplate.
978 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
979 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
983 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
986 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
987 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
988 dh_install, which ...
989 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
990 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
991 mess, as it uses debian/install.
992 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
993 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
994 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
995 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
996 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
997 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
998 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
999 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1000 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1001 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1002 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1003 other minor changes.
1004 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1005 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1006 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1007 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1008 course there's -X ..)
1009 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1010 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1011 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1013 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1014 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1015 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1016 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1017 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1022 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1028 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1031 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1035 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1041 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1047 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1053 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1059 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1062 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1063 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1064 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1065 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1067 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1068 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1072 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1078 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1081 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1085 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1088 upset. Closes: #131322
1090 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1092 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1095 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1096 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1097 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1098 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1099 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1100 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1101 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1102 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1103 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1104 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1105 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1106 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1107 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1108 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1109 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1111 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1115 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1118 - Better indenting of generated code.
1119 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1123 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1127 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1128 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1129 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1130 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1131 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1132 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1133 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1137 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1140 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1144 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1147 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1148 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1149 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1150 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1151 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1152 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1153 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1154 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1155 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1156 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1157 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1158 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1159 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1160 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1161 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1166 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1172 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1175 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1176 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1180 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1183 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1184 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1188 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1194 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1197 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1198 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1199 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1200 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1201 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1206 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1212 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1215 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1219 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1222 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1227 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1233 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1236 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1240 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1246 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1250 Also some indentation fixes.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1254 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1257 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1258 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1259 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1260 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1261 Closes: #106514, #85520
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1265 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1271 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1277 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1283 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1289 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1295 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1298 change it in debhelper v4..
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1302 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1308 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1311 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1315 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1318 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1322 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1328 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1331 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1332 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1333 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1334 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1335 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1336 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1337 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1338 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1339 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1340 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1341 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1342 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1346 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1349 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1353 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1360 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1363 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1364 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1365 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1366 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1367 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1368 program those options go to. So, for example,
1369 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1370 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1371 something complex. Closes: #89311
1372 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1376 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1379 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1380 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1381 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1385 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1388 through loop. Closes: #98598
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1392 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Missing semi-colon.
1395 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1396 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1400 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1403 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1404 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1405 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1409 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1412 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1413 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1417 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1420 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1424 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1427 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1428 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1432 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1435 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1436 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1437 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1441 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1444 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1445 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1446 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1450 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1453 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1457 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1463 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1469 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1475 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1481 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1484 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1488 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1491 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1492 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1493 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1494 followed. Closes: #85483
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1498 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1500 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1501 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1502 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1506 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1509 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1510 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1511 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1512 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1513 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1514 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1515 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1516 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1517 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1518 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1519 Closes: #88464, #77743
1520 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1521 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1522 us to deal with that gracefully.
1523 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1525 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1526 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1527 a while, Closes: #51225
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1531 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1537 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1540 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1544 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1548 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1553 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1556 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1557 don't make packlist files.
1558 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1559 debhelper coding standards.
1560 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1561 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1565 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1568 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1572 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1575 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1576 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1577 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1578 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1579 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1580 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1581 but is mildly deprecated.
1582 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1583 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1584 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1585 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1586 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1587 switching to statoverrides..
1588 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1589 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1590 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1591 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1592 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1593 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1595 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1596 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1597 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1598 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1599 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1600 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1601 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1602 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1603 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1605 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1606 variable names, pod man pages).
1607 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1608 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1609 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1610 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1611 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1612 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1613 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1617 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1623 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1630 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1633 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1637 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1639 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1640 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1641 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1645 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1647 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1648 they were previously ignored.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1652 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1654 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1655 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1659 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1661 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1662 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1663 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1667 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1669 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1673 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1675 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1676 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1680 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1682 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1683 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1684 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1685 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1686 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1687 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1688 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1689 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1690 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1691 it is an obsolete program.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1695 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1697 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1701 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1705 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1707 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1711 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1713 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1715 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1717 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1721 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1727 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * typo: Closes, #78567
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1733 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1739 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1745 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1748 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1749 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1750 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1751 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1752 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1756 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1759 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1764 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1767 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1768 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1769 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1770 backwards-compatability.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1774 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1777 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1778 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1779 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1780 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1781 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1782 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1784 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1785 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1786 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1788 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1790 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1791 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1792 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1793 should now be raised to severity important..
1794 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1795 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1799 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1802 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1807 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1813 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1819 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1825 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1832 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1835 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1836 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1837 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1838 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1842 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1848 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1851 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1852 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1853 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1854 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1855 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1856 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1861 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1864 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1868 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1874 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1877 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1882 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1885 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1886 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1887 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1888 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1892 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1896 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1899 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1902 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1903 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1906 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1908 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1909 the TODO entry about it.
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1913 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1920 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1923 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1924 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1928 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1931 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1932 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1933 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1934 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1938 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1944 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1951 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1954 (this appears to be logal).
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1958 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1961 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1962 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1963 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1964 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1968 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1974 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1977 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1978 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1979 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1980 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1984 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1990 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1993 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1997 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2004 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2007 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2008 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2009 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2014 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2021 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2027 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2030 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2031 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2032 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2033 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2034 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2035 notice until v2 is complete.
2036 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2037 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2038 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2039 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2040 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2041 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2043 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2044 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2045 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2046 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2050 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2056 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2063 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2066 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2070 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2077 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2080 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2081 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2082 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2083 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2088 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2091 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2092 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2093 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2098 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2101 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2102 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2106 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2109 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2113 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2116 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2120 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2127 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2130 depend on the build and install targets.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2134 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2137 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2141 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2148 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2154 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2160 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2163 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2164 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2165 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2166 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2167 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2168 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2170 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2171 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2172 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2173 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2174 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2175 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2176 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2180 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2186 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2192 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2195 right place. Closes: #55065
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2199 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2206 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2209 * Copyright date updates.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2213 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2216 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2221 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2227 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2234 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2240 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2246 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2252 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2255 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2256 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2257 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2258 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2259 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2260 bits until all files have been registered.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2264 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_installmanpages:
2267 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2268 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2269 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2270 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2271 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2272 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2273 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2274 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2275 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2276 otherwise change the result at all.
2278 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2279 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2280 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2281 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2282 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2287 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2293 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2296 act on files that don't exist.
2297 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2298 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2299 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2301 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2302 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2303 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2304 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2308 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2314 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2320 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2323 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2327 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2330 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2332 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2333 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2334 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2338 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2341 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2342 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2343 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2344 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2345 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2346 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2347 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2349 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2351 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2355 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2362 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2368 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2374 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2377 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2381 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2387 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2393 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2396 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2397 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2398 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2399 I made some changes, though:
2400 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2401 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2402 that is a clear violation of policy.
2403 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2404 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2405 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2406 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2407 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2408 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2409 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2410 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2411 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2413 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2417 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2423 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2426 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2430 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2433 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2434 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2439 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2445 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2452 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2455 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2456 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2457 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2458 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2459 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2460 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2461 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2465 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2471 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2475 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2476 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2480 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2486 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2489 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2493 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2496 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2497 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2501 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2503 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2508 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2512 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2516 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2519 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2520 for the dependancies to be generated.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2524 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2527 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2531 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2534 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2535 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2536 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2541 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2544 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2545 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2549 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2555 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2561 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2564 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2568 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2574 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2577 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2578 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2579 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2580 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2581 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2582 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2583 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2584 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2585 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2586 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2587 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2588 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2592 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2595 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2596 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2598 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2599 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2600 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2601 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2602 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2603 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2605 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2606 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2610 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2613 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2617 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2624 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2627 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2632 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2635 for building debhelper.
2636 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2640 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2647 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2650 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2654 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2657 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2658 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2659 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2660 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2661 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2662 it's always available.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2666 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2669 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2670 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2671 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2675 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2678 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2679 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2683 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2689 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2692 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2696 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2702 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2705 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2706 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2707 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2711 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2714 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2719 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2722 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2723 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2725 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2726 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2730 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2736 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2742 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2745 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2749 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2752 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2753 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2755 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2759 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2762 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2763 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2764 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2768 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2771 things if CDPATH is set.
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2775 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2781 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2784 seems to make sense for the transition.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2788 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2791 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2796 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2799 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2800 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2804 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2807 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2811 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2814 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2815 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2816 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2817 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2821 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2827 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2830 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2831 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2832 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2833 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2834 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2835 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2836 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2837 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2838 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2839 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2844 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2847 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2848 * README: mention doc/v2
2849 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2850 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2854 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2856 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2857 be using this script RSN.
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2861 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2864 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2865 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2866 more than 1 init script.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2870 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2873 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2877 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Changed perl version detection.
2880 * Changed call to find.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2884 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2887 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2889 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2894 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Really include dh_installpam.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2900 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2903 * Wrote man page for same.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2907 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2910 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2911 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2916 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2923 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2926 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2927 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2928 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2929 x bit was being set!
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2933 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2936 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2937 well. (Closes: 38900)
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2941 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2944 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2945 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2949 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2955 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2962 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2968 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2971 help from Julian Gilbey.
2972 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2973 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2974 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2975 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2976 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2977 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2978 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2983 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2989 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2996 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3002 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3008 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3011 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3015 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3018 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3022 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3025 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3029 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3035 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3038 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3042 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3048 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3054 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3057 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3058 may be deleted. (#35845)
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3062 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * Various man page enhancements.
3065 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3070 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3073 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3074 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3078 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3081 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3082 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3083 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3085 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3086 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3091 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3097 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Another very minor typo fix.
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3103 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * Very minor typo fix.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3109 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3112 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3113 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3117 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3123 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3126 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3127 variables properly (#34850).
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3131 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3137 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3140 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3141 (automatically generated by build process).
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3145 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3147 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3151 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3154 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3155 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3157 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3161 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3164 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3168 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * README: minor typo fix.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3174 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3177 leave it at that. :-)
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3181 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3187 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3193 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3196 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3197 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3198 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3202 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3205 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3209 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3212 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3216 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3219 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3220 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3221 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3222 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3226 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3229 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3230 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3231 Craig Small for spotting this.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3235 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3238 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3239 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3243 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3249 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3252 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3256 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3258 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3259 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3260 working on the last version of debhelper.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3264 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3267 being made. (#23255)
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3271 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3277 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3280 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3284 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3287 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3288 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3289 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3290 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3294 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3297 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3298 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3299 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3300 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3302 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3303 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3305 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3310 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3316 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3322 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3325 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3326 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3327 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3328 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3329 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3330 suidregister actually supports it.
3331 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3332 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3336 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3343 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3346 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3347 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3348 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3349 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3350 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3351 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3352 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3356 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3358 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3359 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3363 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3366 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3367 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3368 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3369 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3373 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3376 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3378 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3379 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3380 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3381 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3382 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3383 effect, either. (#30118)
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3387 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3393 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3396 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3397 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3401 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3407 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3410 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3411 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3412 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3413 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3417 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3420 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3421 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3425 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3431 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3434 packages, painlessly.
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3438 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3444 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3450 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3456 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * The perl conversion is complete.
3460 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3462 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3463 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3464 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3469 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3472 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3473 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3474 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3478 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3481 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3483 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3485 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3486 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3490 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3493 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3494 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3498 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3504 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3507 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3508 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3509 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3510 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3511 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3515 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3518 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3519 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3520 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3521 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3525 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3528 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3532 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3535 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3536 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3537 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3538 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3539 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3540 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3541 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3542 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3546 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3552 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3555 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3556 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3557 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3562 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3565 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3569 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3572 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3576 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3579 sections of shared libraries.
3580 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3581 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3582 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3583 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3584 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3585 things you don't want them to.
3586 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3587 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3591 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3594 shared libraries. (#26414)
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3598 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3600 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3601 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3602 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3603 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3607 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3611 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3613 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3614 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3615 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3616 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3617 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3621 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3624 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3628 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3631 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3632 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3637 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3640 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3644 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3647 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3648 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3649 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3650 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3651 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3653 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3654 remove debian/files properly.
3655 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3656 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3657 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3658 * Removed bogus menu file.
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3662 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3665 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3669 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3672 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3673 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3674 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3675 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3676 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3677 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3681 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3684 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3685 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3686 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3687 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3691 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3698 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3701 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3702 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3704 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3705 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3706 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3707 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3708 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3709 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3713 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3716 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3717 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3718 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3719 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3720 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3721 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3722 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3723 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3724 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3725 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3726 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3727 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3728 passed any switches.
3729 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3733 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3736 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3737 at all for a long while.
3738 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3739 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3740 large chunks in the process.
3741 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3742 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3743 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3748 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3751 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3753 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3758 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3761 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3762 that don't always have the same files in them.
3763 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3764 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3765 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3769 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3773 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3774 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3775 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3776 updating 27 man pages.
3777 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3778 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3779 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3780 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3781 programs act on. (#25247)
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3785 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3789 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3790 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3791 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3792 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3793 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3794 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3799 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3806 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3813 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3816 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3820 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3826 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3829 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3830 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3831 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3832 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3833 package by accident.
3834 * Is version 1.0 next?
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3838 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3841 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3842 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3846 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3849 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3850 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3851 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3852 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3853 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3855 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3860 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3863 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3864 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3868 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3871 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3875 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3878 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3879 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3884 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3890 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3893 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3894 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3899 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3905 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3908 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3909 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3910 past week. Thanks, guys!
3912 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3913 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3914 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3915 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3916 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3917 would do in the same situation.
3918 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3919 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3921 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3923 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3924 permissions changed.
3925 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3926 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3927 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3928 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3929 files are treated identically.
3930 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3931 * Minor man page fixes.
3932 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3933 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3934 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3938 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3941 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3942 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3943 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3944 use -X multiple times, too.
3945 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3946 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3950 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3953 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3954 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3958 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3961 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3965 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3968 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3969 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3970 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3971 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3972 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3973 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3974 shape if you're starting a new package.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3978 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3981 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3985 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3988 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3989 because of missing symlinks.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3993 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3999 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4002 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4003 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4004 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4005 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4006 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4008 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4009 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4013 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4015 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4016 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4017 to be changed after the fact :-)
4018 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4022 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4025 no version string after the -V.
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4029 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4031 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4032 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4037 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4039 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4040 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4044 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4047 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4048 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4049 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4050 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4051 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4052 I always welcome corrections!
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4056 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4062 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4065 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4066 * Documented this new switch.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4070 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4073 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4074 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4075 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4076 no packages use the old behavior.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4080 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4083 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4084 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4088 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4091 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4095 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4101 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4104 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4108 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4111 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4112 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4113 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4117 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4123 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4126 into the source package by accident.
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4130 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4133 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4134 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4135 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4136 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4137 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4138 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4143 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4147 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4148 inspired to implement some of it.
4149 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4153 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4156 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4160 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4163 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4164 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4168 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4171 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4172 have done.) (#17598)
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4176 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4182 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4188 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4191 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4195 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4198 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4199 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4203 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4206 argument processor in perl.
4207 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4208 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4209 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4210 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4214 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4216 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4217 type directories. (#16933)
4218 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4219 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4220 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4221 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4222 are supported. (#16935)
4223 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4228 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4231 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4235 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4239 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4240 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4241 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4242 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4243 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4244 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4248 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4251 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4252 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4254 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4255 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4256 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4257 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4258 a given package, or -i or -a.
4259 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4260 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4261 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4262 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4263 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4264 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4265 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4266 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4267 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4269 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4270 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4271 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4275 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4277 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4278 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4279 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4284 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4287 does not have a section.
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4291 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4294 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4295 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4296 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4300 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * Fixed typo #16215.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4306 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4309 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4310 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4311 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4312 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4313 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4318 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4321 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4322 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4323 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4328 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4334 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4340 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4343 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4344 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4345 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4346 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4347 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4348 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4352 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4358 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4361 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4365 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4368 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4369 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4370 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4374 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4377 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4381 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4387 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4390 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4394 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4397 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4401 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4407 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4410 postinst, postrm, etc.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4414 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4420 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4423 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4424 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4425 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4426 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4427 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4431 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4434 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4435 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4439 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4442 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4446 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4449 installing package files into.
4450 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4455 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4459 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4463 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4469 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4472 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4476 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4479 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4480 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4481 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4482 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4486 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4488 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4489 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4490 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4491 multiple binary packages.
4492 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4493 should rebuild them with this version.
4494 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4498 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4501 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4505 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4508 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4512 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4515 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4516 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4517 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4518 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4519 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4520 debian/README.debian.
4521 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4522 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4523 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4524 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4525 in a few situations.)
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4529 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4535 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4541 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4544 * Fixed several man pages.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4548 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4551 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4552 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4556 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4559 is ready for general use.
4560 * Added man pages for all commands.
4561 * Multiple binary package support.
4562 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4563 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4564 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4566 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4567 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4568 auto-installed as parameters.
4569 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4571 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4574 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4575 the package build directory it is to act on.
4576 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4577 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4578 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4582 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4584 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4585 ready to replace debstd.
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400