1 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
4 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
8 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
14 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
20 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
24 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
25 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
27 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
31 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
34 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
35 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
36 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
37 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
41 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
43 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
44 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
48 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
51 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
52 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
56 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
60 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
65 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
71 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
75 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
76 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
77 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
82 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
85 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
86 practice. Closes: #163303
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
90 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
96 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
103 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
105 * The "reverse hangover" release.
106 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
108 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
109 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
110 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
111 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
112 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
116 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
119 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
124 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
130 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
137 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
140 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
145 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
151 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
157 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
163 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
165 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
170 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
173 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
174 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
175 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
176 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
181 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Typo, Closes: #155323
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
187 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
194 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
197 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
198 * Removed dh_installxaw.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
202 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
205 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
206 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
207 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
208 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
209 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
213 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
216 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
218 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
223 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
225 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
226 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
230 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
233 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
234 right thing. Closes: #150644
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
238 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
245 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
247 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
252 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
255 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
256 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
261 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
267 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
270 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
274 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
277 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
278 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
283 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
286 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
290 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
292 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
296 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
298 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
299 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
300 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
304 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
310 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Removing perl warning message.
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
316 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
319 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
320 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
321 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
322 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
323 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
324 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
325 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
326 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
330 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
336 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
343 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
346 debconf-mergetemplate.
347 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
348 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
352 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
355 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
356 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
357 dh_install, which ...
358 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
359 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
360 mess, as it uses debian/install.
361 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
362 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
363 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
364 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
365 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
366 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
367 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
368 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
369 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
370 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
371 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
373 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
374 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
375 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
376 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
377 course there's -X ..)
378 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
379 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
380 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
382 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
383 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
384 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
385 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
386 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
391 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
397 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Typo, Closes: #139176
400 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
404 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
410 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
416 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
422 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
428 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
431 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
432 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
433 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
434 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
436 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
437 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
441 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
447 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Typo, Closes: #132454
450 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
454 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
457 upset. Closes: #131322
459 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
461 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
464 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
465 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
466 line, as well as in debian/rules.
467 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
468 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
469 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
470 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
471 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
472 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
473 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
474 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
475 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
476 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
477 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
478 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
480 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
484 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
487 - Better indenting of generated code.
488 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
492 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
496 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
497 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
498 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
499 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
500 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
501 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
502 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
506 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
509 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
513 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
516 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
517 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
518 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
519 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
520 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
521 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
522 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
523 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
524 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
525 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
526 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
527 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
528 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
529 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
530 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
535 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
541 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
544 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
545 * fixed dh_testdir man page
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
549 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Typo, Closes: #122679
552 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
553 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
557 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
563 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
566 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
567 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
568 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
569 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
570 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
575 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
577 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
581 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
584 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
588 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
591 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
596 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Typo, Closes: #114135
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
602 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
605 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
609 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
615 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
619 Also some indentation fixes.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
623 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
626 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
627 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
628 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
629 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
630 Closes: #106514, #85520
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
634 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Typo, Closes: #104405
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
640 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
646 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
648 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
652 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
658 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
664 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
667 change it in debhelper v4..
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
671 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
677 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
680 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
684 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
687 is not essential. Closes: #100430
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
691 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
697 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
700 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
701 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
702 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
703 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
704 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
705 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
706 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
707 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
708 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
709 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
710 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
711 prefixed with ".debhelper")
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
715 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
718 look just like shared libs, but are not.
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
722 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
729 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
732 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
733 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
734 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
735 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
736 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
737 program those options go to. So, for example,
738 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
739 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
740 something complex. Closes: #89311
741 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
745 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
748 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
749 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
750 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
754 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
757 through loop. Closes: #98598
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
761 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Missing semi-colon.
764 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
765 this (dh_* should be called, really).
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
769 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
772 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
773 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
774 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
778 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
781 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
782 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
786 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
789 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
793 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
796 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
797 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
801 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
804 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
805 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
806 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
810 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
813 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
814 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
815 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
819 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
822 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
826 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
832 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Typo, Closes: #92407
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
838 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
844 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
850 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
852 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
853 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
857 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
860 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
861 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
862 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
863 followed. Closes: #85483
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
867 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
869 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
870 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
871 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
875 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
878 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
879 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
880 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
881 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
882 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
883 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
884 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
885 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
886 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
887 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
888 Closes: #88464, #77743
889 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
890 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
891 us to deal with that gracefully.
892 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
894 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
895 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
896 a while, Closes: #51225
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
900 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
906 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
909 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
913 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
917 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
922 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
925 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
926 don't make packlist files.
927 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
928 debhelper coding standards.
929 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
930 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
934 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
937 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
941 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
944 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
945 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
946 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
947 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
948 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
949 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
950 but is mildly deprecated.
951 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
952 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
953 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
954 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
955 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
956 switching to statoverrides..
957 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
958 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
959 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
960 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
961 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
962 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
964 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
965 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
966 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
967 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
968 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
969 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
970 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
971 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
972 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
974 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
975 variable names, pod man pages).
976 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
977 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
978 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
979 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
980 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
981 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
982 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
986 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
992 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
999 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1002 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1006 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1008 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1009 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1010 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1014 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1016 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1017 they were previously ignored.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1021 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1023 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1024 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1028 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1030 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1031 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1032 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1036 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1038 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1042 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1044 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1045 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1049 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1051 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1052 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1053 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1054 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1055 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1056 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1057 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1058 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1059 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1060 it is an obsolete program.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1064 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1066 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1070 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1074 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1076 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1080 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1082 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1084 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1086 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1090 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1096 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * typo: Closes, #78567
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1102 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1108 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1114 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1117 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1118 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1119 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1120 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1121 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1125 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1128 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1133 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1136 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1137 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1138 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1139 backwards-compatability.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1143 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1146 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1147 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1148 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1149 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1150 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1151 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1153 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1154 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1155 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1157 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1159 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1160 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1161 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1162 should now be raised to severity important..
1163 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1164 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1168 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1171 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1176 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1182 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1188 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1194 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1201 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1204 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1205 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1206 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1207 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1211 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1217 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1220 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1221 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1222 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1223 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1224 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1225 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1230 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1233 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1237 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1243 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1246 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1251 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1254 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1255 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1256 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1257 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1261 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1265 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1268 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1271 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1272 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1275 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1277 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1278 the TODO entry about it.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1282 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1289 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1292 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1293 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1297 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1300 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1301 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1302 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1303 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1307 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1313 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1320 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1323 (this appears to be logal).
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1327 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1330 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1331 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1332 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1333 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1337 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1343 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1346 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1347 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1348 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1349 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1353 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1359 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1362 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1366 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1373 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1376 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1377 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1378 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1383 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1390 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1396 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1399 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1400 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1401 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1402 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1403 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1404 notice until v2 is complete.
1405 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1406 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1407 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1408 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1409 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1410 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1412 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1413 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1414 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1415 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1419 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1425 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1432 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1435 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1439 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1446 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1449 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1450 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1451 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1452 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1457 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1460 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1461 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1462 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1467 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1470 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1471 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1475 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1478 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1482 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1485 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1496 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1499 depend on the build and install targets.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1503 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1506 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1517 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1523 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1529 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1532 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1533 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1534 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1535 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1536 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1537 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1539 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1540 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1541 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1542 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1543 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1544 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1545 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1549 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1555 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1561 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1564 right place. Closes: #55065
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1568 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1575 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1578 * Copyright date updates.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1582 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1585 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1590 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1596 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1603 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1609 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1615 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1621 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1624 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1625 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1626 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1627 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1628 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1629 bits until all files have been registered.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1633 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_installmanpages:
1636 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1637 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1638 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1639 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1640 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1641 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1642 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1643 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1644 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1645 otherwise change the result at all.
1647 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1648 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1649 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1650 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1651 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1656 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1662 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1665 act on files that don't exist.
1666 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1667 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1668 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1670 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1671 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1672 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1673 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1677 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1683 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1689 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1692 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1696 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1699 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1701 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1702 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1703 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1707 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1710 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1711 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1712 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1713 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1714 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1715 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1716 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1718 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1720 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1724 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1731 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1737 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1743 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1746 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1750 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1756 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1762 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1765 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1766 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1767 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1768 I made some changes, though:
1769 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1770 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1771 that is a clear violation of policy.
1772 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1773 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1774 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1775 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1776 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1777 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1778 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1779 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1780 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1782 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1786 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1792 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1795 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1799 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1802 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1803 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1808 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1814 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1821 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1824 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1825 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1826 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1827 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1828 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1829 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1830 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1834 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1840 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1844 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1845 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1849 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1855 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1858 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1862 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1865 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1866 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1870 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1872 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1881 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1885 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1888 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1889 for the dependancies to be generated.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1893 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1896 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1900 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1903 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1904 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1905 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1910 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1913 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1914 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1918 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1924 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1930 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1933 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1937 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1943 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1946 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1947 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1948 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1949 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1950 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1951 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1952 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1953 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1954 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1955 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1956 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1957 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1961 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1964 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1965 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1967 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1968 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1969 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1970 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1971 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1972 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1974 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1975 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1979 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1982 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1986 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1993 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1996 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2001 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2004 for building debhelper.
2005 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2009 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2019 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2023 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2026 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2027 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2028 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2029 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2030 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2031 it's always available.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2035 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2038 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2039 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2040 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2044 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2047 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2048 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2052 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2058 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2061 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2065 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2071 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2074 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2075 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2076 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2080 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2083 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2088 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2091 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2092 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2094 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2095 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2099 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2105 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2111 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2114 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2118 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2121 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2122 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2124 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2128 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2131 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2132 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2133 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2137 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2140 things if CDPATH is set.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2144 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2150 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2153 seems to make sense for the transition.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2157 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2160 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2165 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2168 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2169 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2173 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2176 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2180 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2183 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2184 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2185 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2186 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2190 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2196 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2199 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2200 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2201 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2202 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2203 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2204 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2205 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2206 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2207 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2208 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2213 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2216 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2217 * README: mention doc/v2
2218 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2219 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2223 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2225 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2226 be using this script RSN.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2230 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2233 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2234 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2235 more than 1 init script.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2239 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2242 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2246 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Changed perl version detection.
2249 * Changed call to find.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2253 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2256 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2258 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2263 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Really include dh_installpam.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2269 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2272 * Wrote man page for same.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2276 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2279 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2280 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2285 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2292 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2295 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2296 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2297 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2298 x bit was being set!
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2302 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2305 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2306 well. (Closes: 38900)
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2310 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2313 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2314 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2318 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2324 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2331 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2337 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2340 help from Julian Gilbey.
2341 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2342 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2343 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2344 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2345 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2346 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2347 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2352 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2358 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2365 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2371 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2377 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2380 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2384 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2387 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2391 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2394 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2398 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2404 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2407 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2411 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2417 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2423 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2426 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2427 may be deleted. (#35845)
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2431 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Various man page enhancements.
2434 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2439 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2442 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2443 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2447 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2450 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2451 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2452 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2454 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2455 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2460 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2466 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Another very minor typo fix.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2472 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * Very minor typo fix.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2478 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2481 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2482 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2486 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2492 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2495 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2496 variables properly (#34850).
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2500 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2506 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2509 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2510 (automatically generated by build process).
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2514 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2516 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2520 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2523 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2524 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2526 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2530 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2533 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2537 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * README: minor typo fix.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2543 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2546 leave it at that. :-)
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2550 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2556 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2562 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2565 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2566 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2567 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2571 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2574 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2578 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2581 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2585 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2588 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2589 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2590 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2591 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2595 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2598 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2599 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2600 Craig Small for spotting this.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2604 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2607 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2608 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2612 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2618 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2621 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2625 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2627 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2628 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2629 working on the last version of debhelper.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2633 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2636 being made. (#23255)
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2640 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2646 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2649 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2653 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2656 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2657 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2658 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2659 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2663 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2666 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2667 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2668 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2669 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2671 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2672 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2674 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2679 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2685 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2691 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2694 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2695 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2696 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2697 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2698 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2699 suidregister actually supports it.
2700 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2701 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2705 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2712 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2715 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2716 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2717 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2718 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2719 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2720 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2721 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2725 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2727 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2728 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2732 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2735 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2736 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2737 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2738 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2742 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2745 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2747 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2748 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2749 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2750 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2751 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2752 effect, either. (#30118)
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2756 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2762 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2765 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2766 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2770 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2776 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2779 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2780 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2781 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2782 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2786 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2789 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2790 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2794 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2800 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2803 packages, painlessly.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2807 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2813 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2819 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2825 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * The perl conversion is complete.
2829 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2831 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2832 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2833 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2838 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2841 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2842 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2843 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2847 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2850 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2852 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2854 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2855 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2859 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2862 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2863 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2867 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2873 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2876 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2877 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2878 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2879 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2880 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2884 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2887 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2888 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2889 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2890 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2894 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2897 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2901 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2904 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2905 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2906 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2907 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2908 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2909 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2910 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2911 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2915 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2921 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2924 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2925 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2926 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2931 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2934 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2938 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2941 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2945 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2948 sections of shared libraries.
2949 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2950 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2951 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2952 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2953 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2954 things you don't want them to.
2955 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2956 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2960 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2963 shared libraries. (#26414)
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2967 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2969 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2970 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2971 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2972 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2976 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2980 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2982 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2983 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2984 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2985 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2986 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2990 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2993 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2997 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3000 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3001 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3006 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3009 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3013 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3016 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3017 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3018 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3019 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3020 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3022 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3023 remove debian/files properly.
3024 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3025 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3026 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3027 * Removed bogus menu file.
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3031 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3034 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3038 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3041 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3042 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3043 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3044 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3045 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3046 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3050 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3053 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3054 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3055 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3056 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3060 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3067 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3070 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3071 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3073 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3074 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3075 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3076 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3077 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3078 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3082 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3085 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3086 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3087 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3088 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3089 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3090 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3091 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3092 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3093 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3094 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3095 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3096 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3097 passed any switches.
3098 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3102 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3105 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3106 at all for a long while.
3107 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3108 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3109 large chunks in the process.
3110 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3111 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3112 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3117 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3120 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3122 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3127 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3130 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3131 that don't always have the same files in them.
3132 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3133 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3134 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3138 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3142 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3143 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3144 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3145 updating 27 man pages.
3146 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3147 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3148 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3149 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3150 programs act on. (#25247)
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3154 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3158 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3159 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3160 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3161 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3162 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3163 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3168 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3175 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3182 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3185 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3189 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3195 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3198 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3199 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3200 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3201 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3202 package by accident.
3203 * Is version 1.0 next?
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3207 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3210 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3211 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3215 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3218 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3219 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3220 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3221 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3222 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3224 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3229 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3232 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3233 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3237 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3240 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3244 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3247 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3248 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3253 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3259 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3262 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3263 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3268 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3274 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3277 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3278 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3279 past week. Thanks, guys!
3281 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3282 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3283 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3284 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3285 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3286 would do in the same situation.
3287 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3288 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3290 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3292 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3293 permissions changed.
3294 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3295 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3296 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3297 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3298 files are treated identically.
3299 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3300 * Minor man page fixes.
3301 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3302 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3303 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3307 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3310 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3311 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3312 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3313 use -X multiple times, too.
3314 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3315 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3319 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3322 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3323 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3327 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3330 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3334 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3337 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3338 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3339 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3340 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3341 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3342 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3343 shape if you're starting a new package.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3347 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3350 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3354 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3357 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3358 because of missing symlinks.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3362 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3368 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3371 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3372 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3373 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3374 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3375 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3377 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3378 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3382 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3384 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3385 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3386 to be changed after the fact :-)
3387 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3391 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3394 no version string after the -V.
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3398 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3400 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3401 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3406 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3409 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3413 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3416 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3417 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3418 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3419 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3420 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3421 I always welcome corrections!
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3425 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3431 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3434 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3435 * Documented this new switch.
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3439 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3442 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3443 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3444 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3445 no packages use the old behavior.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3449 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3452 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3453 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3457 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3460 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3464 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3470 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3473 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3477 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3480 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3481 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3482 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3486 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3492 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3495 into the source package by accident.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3499 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3502 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3503 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3504 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3505 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3506 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3507 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3512 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3516 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3517 inspired to implement some of it.
3518 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3522 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3525 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3529 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3532 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3533 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3537 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3540 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3541 have done.) (#17598)
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3545 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3551 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3557 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3560 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3564 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3567 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3568 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3572 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3575 argument processor in perl.
3576 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3577 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3578 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3579 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3583 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3586 type directories. (#16933)
3587 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3588 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3589 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3590 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3591 are supported. (#16935)
3592 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3597 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3600 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3604 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3608 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3609 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3610 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3611 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3612 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3613 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3617 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3620 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3621 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3623 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3624 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3625 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3626 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3627 a given package, or -i or -a.
3628 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3629 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3630 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3631 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3632 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3633 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3634 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3635 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3636 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3638 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3639 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3640 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3644 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3647 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3648 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3653 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3656 does not have a section.
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3660 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3663 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3664 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3665 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3669 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * Fixed typo #16215.
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3675 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3678 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3679 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3680 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3681 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3682 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3687 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3690 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3691 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3692 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3697 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3703 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3709 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3712 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3713 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3714 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3715 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3716 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3717 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3721 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3727 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3730 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3734 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3737 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3738 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3739 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3743 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3746 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3750 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3756 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3759 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3763 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3766 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3770 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3776 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3779 postinst, postrm, etc.
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3783 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3789 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3792 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3793 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3794 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3795 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3796 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3800 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3803 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3804 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3808 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3811 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3815 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3818 installing package files into.
3819 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3824 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3828 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3832 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3838 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3841 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3845 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3848 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3849 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3850 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3851 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3855 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3857 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3858 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3859 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3860 multiple binary packages.
3861 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3862 should rebuild them with this version.
3863 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3867 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3870 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3874 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3877 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3881 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3884 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3885 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3886 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3887 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3888 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3889 debian/README.debian.
3890 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3891 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3892 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3893 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3894 in a few situations.)
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3898 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3904 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3910 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3913 * Fixed several man pages.
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3917 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3920 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3921 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3925 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3928 is ready for general use.
3929 * Added man pages for all commands.
3930 * Multiple binary package support.
3931 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3932 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3933 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3935 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3936 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3937 auto-installed as parameters.
3938 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3940 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3943 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3944 the package build directory it is to act on.
3945 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3946 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3947 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3951 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3953 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3954 ready to replace debstd.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400