1 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
7 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
13 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
15 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
19 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
21 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
26 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
29 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
30 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
31 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
32 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
37 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Typo, Closes: #155323
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
43 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
50 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
53 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
54 * Removed dh_installxaw.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
58 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
61 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
62 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
63 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
64 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
65 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
69 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
72 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
74 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
79 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
81 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
82 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
86 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
88 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
89 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
90 right thing. Closes: #150644
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
94 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
101 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
103 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
108 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
111 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
112 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
117 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
123 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
126 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
130 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
133 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
134 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
139 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
142 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
146 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
152 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
155 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
156 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
160 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
166 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Removing perl warning message.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
172 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
175 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
176 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
177 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
178 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
179 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
180 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
181 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
182 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
186 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
192 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
199 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
202 debconf-mergetemplate.
203 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
204 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
208 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
210 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
211 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
212 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
213 dh_install, which ...
214 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
215 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
216 mess, as it uses debian/install.
217 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
218 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
219 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
220 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
221 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
222 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
223 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
224 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
225 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
226 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
227 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
229 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
230 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
231 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
232 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
233 course there's -X ..)
234 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
235 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
236 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
238 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
239 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
240 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
241 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
242 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
247 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
253 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Typo, Closes: #139176
256 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
260 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
266 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
272 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
274 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
278 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
280 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
284 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
287 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
288 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
289 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
290 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
292 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
293 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
297 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
299 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
303 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Typo, Closes: #132454
306 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
310 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
313 upset. Closes: #131322
315 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
317 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
320 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
321 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
322 line, as well as in debian/rules.
323 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
324 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
325 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
326 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
327 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
328 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
329 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
330 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
331 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
332 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
333 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
334 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
336 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
340 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
343 - Better indenting of generated code.
344 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
348 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
352 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
353 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
354 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
355 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
356 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
357 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
358 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
362 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
365 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
369 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
372 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
373 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
374 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
375 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
376 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
377 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
378 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
379 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
380 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
381 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
382 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
383 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
384 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
385 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
386 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
391 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
397 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
400 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
401 * fixed dh_testdir man page
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
405 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Typo, Closes: #122679
408 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
409 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
413 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
419 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
422 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
423 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
424 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
425 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
426 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
431 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
433 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
437 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
440 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
444 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
446 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
447 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
452 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Typo, Closes: #114135
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
458 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
461 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
465 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
471 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
475 Also some indentation fixes.
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
479 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
482 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
483 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
484 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
485 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
486 Closes: #106514, #85520
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
490 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Typo, Closes: #104405
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
496 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
502 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
504 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
508 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
514 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
520 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
523 change it in debhelper v4..
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
527 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
533 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
536 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
540 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
543 is not essential. Closes: #100430
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
547 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
553 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
556 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
557 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
558 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
559 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
560 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
561 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
562 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
563 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
564 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
565 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
566 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
567 prefixed with ".debhelper")
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
571 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
574 look just like shared libs, but are not.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
578 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
585 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
588 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
589 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
590 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
591 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
592 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
593 program those options go to. So, for example,
594 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
595 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
596 something complex. Closes: #89311
597 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
601 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
604 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
605 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
606 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
610 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
613 through loop. Closes: #98598
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
617 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Missing semi-colon.
620 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
621 this (dh_* should be called, really).
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
625 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
628 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
629 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
630 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
634 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
636 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
637 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
638 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
642 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
645 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
649 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
652 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
653 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
657 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
660 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
661 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
662 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
666 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
669 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
670 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
671 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
675 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
678 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
682 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
688 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Typo, Closes: #92407
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
694 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
700 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
706 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
709 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
713 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
716 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
717 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
718 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
719 followed. Closes: #85483
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
723 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
725 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
726 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
727 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
731 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
734 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
735 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
736 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
737 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
738 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
739 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
740 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
741 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
742 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
743 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
744 Closes: #88464, #77743
745 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
746 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
747 us to deal with that gracefully.
748 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
750 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
751 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
752 a while, Closes: #51225
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
756 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
762 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
765 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
769 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
773 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
778 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
781 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
782 don't make packlist files.
783 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
784 debhelper coding standards.
785 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
786 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
790 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
793 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
797 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
800 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
801 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
802 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
803 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
804 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
805 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
806 but is mildly deprecated.
807 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
808 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
809 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
810 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
811 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
812 switching to statoverrides..
813 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
814 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
815 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
816 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
817 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
818 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
820 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
821 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
822 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
823 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
824 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
825 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
826 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
827 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
828 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
830 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
831 variable names, pod man pages).
832 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
833 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
834 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
835 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
836 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
837 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
838 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
842 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
844 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
848 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
855 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
858 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
862 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
864 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
865 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
866 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
870 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
872 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
873 they were previously ignored.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
877 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
879 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
880 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
884 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
886 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
887 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
888 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
892 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
894 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
898 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
900 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
901 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
905 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
907 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
908 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
909 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
910 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
911 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
912 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
913 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
914 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
915 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
916 it is an obsolete program.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
920 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
922 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
926 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
930 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
932 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
934 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
936 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
938 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
940 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
942 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
946 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
952 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
954 * typo: Closes, #78567
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
958 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
964 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
970 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
972 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
973 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
974 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
975 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
976 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
977 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
981 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
984 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
989 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
992 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
993 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
994 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
995 backwards-compatability.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
999 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1002 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1003 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1004 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1005 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1006 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1007 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1009 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1010 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1011 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1013 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1015 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1016 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1017 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1018 should now be raised to severity important..
1019 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1020 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1024 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1027 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1032 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1038 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1044 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1050 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1057 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1060 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1061 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1062 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1063 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1067 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1073 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1076 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1077 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1078 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1079 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1080 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1081 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1086 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1089 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1093 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1099 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1102 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1107 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1110 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1111 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1112 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1113 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1117 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1121 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1124 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1127 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1128 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1131 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1133 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1134 the TODO entry about it.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1138 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1145 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1148 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1149 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1153 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1156 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1157 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1158 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1159 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1163 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1169 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1176 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1179 (this appears to be logal).
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1183 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1186 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1187 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1188 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1189 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1193 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1199 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1202 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1203 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1204 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1205 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1209 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1215 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1218 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1222 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1229 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1232 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1233 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1234 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1239 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1246 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1255 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1256 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1257 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1258 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1259 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1260 notice until v2 is complete.
1261 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1262 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1263 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1264 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1265 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1266 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1268 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1269 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1270 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1271 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1275 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1281 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1291 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1295 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1302 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1305 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1306 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1307 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1308 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1313 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1316 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1317 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1318 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1323 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1326 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1327 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1331 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1334 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1338 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1341 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1345 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1352 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1355 depend on the build and install targets.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1359 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1362 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1366 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1373 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1379 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1385 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1388 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1389 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1390 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1391 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1392 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1393 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1395 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1396 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1397 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1398 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1399 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1400 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1401 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1405 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1411 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1417 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1420 right place. Closes: #55065
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1424 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1431 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1434 * Copyright date updates.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1438 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1441 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1446 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1452 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1459 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1465 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1471 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1477 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1480 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1481 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1482 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1483 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1484 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1485 bits until all files have been registered.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1489 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installmanpages:
1492 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1493 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1494 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1495 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1496 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1497 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1498 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1499 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1500 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1501 otherwise change the result at all.
1503 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1504 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1505 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1506 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1507 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1512 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1518 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1521 act on files that don't exist.
1522 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1523 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1524 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1526 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1527 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1528 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1529 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1533 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1539 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1545 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1548 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1552 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1555 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1557 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1558 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1559 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1563 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1566 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1567 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1568 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1569 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1570 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1571 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1572 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1574 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1576 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1580 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1587 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1593 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1599 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1602 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1606 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1612 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1618 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1621 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1622 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1623 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1624 I made some changes, though:
1625 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1626 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1627 that is a clear violation of policy.
1628 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1629 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1630 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1631 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1632 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1633 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1634 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1635 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1636 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1638 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1642 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1648 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1651 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1655 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1658 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1659 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1664 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1670 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1677 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1680 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1681 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1682 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1683 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1684 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1685 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1686 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1690 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1696 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1700 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1701 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1705 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1711 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1714 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1718 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1721 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1722 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1726 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1728 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1733 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1737 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1741 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1744 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1745 for the dependancies to be generated.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1749 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1752 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1756 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1759 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1760 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1761 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1766 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1769 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1770 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1774 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1780 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1786 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1789 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1793 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1799 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1802 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1803 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1804 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1805 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1806 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1807 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1808 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1809 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1810 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1811 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1812 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1813 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1817 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1820 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1821 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1823 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1824 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1825 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1826 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1827 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1828 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1830 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1831 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1835 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1838 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1842 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1849 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1852 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1857 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1860 for building debhelper.
1861 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1865 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1872 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1875 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1879 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1882 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1883 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1884 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1885 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1886 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1887 it's always available.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1891 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1894 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1895 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1896 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1900 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1903 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1904 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1908 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1914 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1917 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1921 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1927 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1930 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1931 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1932 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1939 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1944 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1947 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1948 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1950 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1951 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1955 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1961 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1967 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1970 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1974 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1977 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1978 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1980 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1984 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1987 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1988 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1989 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1993 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1996 things if CDPATH is set.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2000 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2006 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2009 seems to make sense for the transition.
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2013 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2016 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2021 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2024 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2025 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2029 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2032 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2036 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2039 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2040 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2041 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2042 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2046 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2052 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2055 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2056 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2057 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2058 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2059 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2060 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2061 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2062 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2063 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2064 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2069 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2072 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2073 * README: mention doc/v2
2074 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2075 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2079 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2081 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2082 be using this script RSN.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2086 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2089 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2090 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2091 more than 1 init script.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2095 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2098 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2102 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Changed perl version detection.
2105 * Changed call to find.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2109 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2112 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2114 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2119 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Really include dh_installpam.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2125 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2128 * Wrote man page for same.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2132 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2135 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2136 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2141 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2148 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2151 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2152 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2153 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2154 x bit was being set!
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2158 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2161 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2162 well. (Closes: 38900)
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2166 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2169 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2170 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2174 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2180 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2187 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2193 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2196 help from Julian Gilbey.
2197 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2198 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2199 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2200 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2201 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2202 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2203 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2208 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2214 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2221 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2227 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2233 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2236 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2240 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2243 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2247 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2250 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2254 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2260 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2263 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2267 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2273 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2279 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2282 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2283 may be deleted. (#35845)
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2287 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * Various man page enhancements.
2290 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2295 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2298 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2299 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2303 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2306 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2307 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2308 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2310 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2311 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2316 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2322 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Another very minor typo fix.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2328 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Very minor typo fix.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2334 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2337 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2338 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2342 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2348 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2351 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2352 variables properly (#34850).
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2356 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2362 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2365 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2366 (automatically generated by build process).
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2370 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2372 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2376 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2379 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2380 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2382 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2386 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2389 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2393 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * README: minor typo fix.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2399 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2402 leave it at that. :-)
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2406 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2412 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2418 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2421 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2422 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2423 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2427 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2430 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2434 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2437 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2441 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2444 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2445 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2446 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2447 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2451 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2454 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2455 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2456 Craig Small for spotting this.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2460 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2463 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2464 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2468 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2474 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2477 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2481 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2483 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2484 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2485 working on the last version of debhelper.
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2489 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2492 being made. (#23255)
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2496 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2502 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2505 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2509 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2512 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2513 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2514 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2515 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2519 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2522 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2523 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2524 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2525 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2527 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2528 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2530 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2535 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2541 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2547 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2550 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2551 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2552 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2553 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2554 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2555 suidregister actually supports it.
2556 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2557 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2561 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2568 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2571 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2572 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2573 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2574 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2575 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2576 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2577 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2581 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2583 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2584 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2588 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2591 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2592 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2593 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2594 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2598 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2601 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2603 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2604 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2605 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2606 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2607 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2608 effect, either. (#30118)
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2612 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2618 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2621 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2622 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2626 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2632 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2635 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2636 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2637 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2638 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2642 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2645 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2646 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2650 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2656 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2659 packages, painlessly.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2663 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2669 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2675 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2681 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * The perl conversion is complete.
2685 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2687 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2688 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2689 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2694 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2697 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2698 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2699 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2703 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2706 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2708 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2710 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2711 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2715 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2718 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2719 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2723 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2729 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2732 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2733 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2734 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2735 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2736 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2740 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2743 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2744 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2745 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2746 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2750 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2753 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2757 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2760 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2761 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2762 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2763 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2764 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2765 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2766 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2767 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2771 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2777 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2780 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2781 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2782 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2787 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2790 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2794 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2797 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2801 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2804 sections of shared libraries.
2805 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2806 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2807 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2808 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2809 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2810 things you don't want them to.
2811 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2812 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2816 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2819 shared libraries. (#26414)
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2823 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2825 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2826 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2827 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2828 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2832 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2836 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2838 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2839 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2840 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2841 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2842 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2846 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2849 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2853 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2856 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2857 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2862 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2865 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2869 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2872 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2873 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2874 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2875 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2876 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2878 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2879 remove debian/files properly.
2880 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2881 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2882 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2883 * Removed bogus menu file.
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2887 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2890 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2894 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2897 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2898 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2899 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2900 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2901 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2902 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2906 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2909 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2910 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2911 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2912 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2916 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2923 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2926 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2927 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2929 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2930 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2931 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2932 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2933 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2934 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2938 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2941 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2942 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2943 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2944 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2945 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2946 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2947 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2948 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2949 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2950 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2951 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2952 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2953 passed any switches.
2954 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2958 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2961 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2962 at all for a long while.
2963 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2964 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2965 large chunks in the process.
2966 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2967 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2968 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2973 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2976 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2978 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2983 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2986 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2987 that don't always have the same files in them.
2988 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2989 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2990 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2994 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2998 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2999 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3000 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3001 updating 27 man pages.
3002 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3003 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3004 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3005 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3006 programs act on. (#25247)
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3010 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3014 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3015 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3016 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3017 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3018 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3019 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3024 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3031 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3038 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3041 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3045 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3051 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3054 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3055 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3056 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3057 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3058 package by accident.
3059 * Is version 1.0 next?
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3063 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3066 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3067 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3071 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3074 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3075 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3076 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3077 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3078 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3080 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3085 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3088 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3089 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3093 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3096 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3100 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3103 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3104 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3109 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3115 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3118 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3119 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3124 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3130 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3133 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3134 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3135 past week. Thanks, guys!
3137 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3138 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3139 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3140 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3141 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3142 would do in the same situation.
3143 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3144 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3146 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3148 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3149 permissions changed.
3150 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3151 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3152 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3153 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3154 files are treated identically.
3155 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3156 * Minor man page fixes.
3157 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3158 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3159 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3163 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3166 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3167 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3168 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3169 use -X multiple times, too.
3170 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3171 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3175 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3178 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3179 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3183 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3186 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3190 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3193 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3194 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3195 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3196 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3197 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3198 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3199 shape if you're starting a new package.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3203 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3206 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3210 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3213 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3214 because of missing symlinks.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3218 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3224 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3227 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3228 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3229 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3230 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3231 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3233 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3234 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3238 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3240 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3241 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3242 to be changed after the fact :-)
3243 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3247 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3250 no version string after the -V.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3254 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3256 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3257 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3262 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3265 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3269 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3272 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3273 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3274 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3275 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3276 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3277 I always welcome corrections!
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3281 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3287 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3290 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3291 * Documented this new switch.
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3295 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3298 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3299 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3300 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3301 no packages use the old behavior.
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3305 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3308 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3309 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3313 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3316 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3320 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3326 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3329 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3333 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3336 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3337 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3338 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3342 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3348 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3351 into the source package by accident.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3355 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3358 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3359 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3360 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3361 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3362 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3363 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3368 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3372 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3373 inspired to implement some of it.
3374 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3378 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3381 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3385 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3388 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3389 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3393 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3396 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3397 have done.) (#17598)
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3401 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3407 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3413 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3416 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3420 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3423 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3424 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3428 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3431 argument processor in perl.
3432 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3433 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3434 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3435 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3439 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3442 type directories. (#16933)
3443 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3444 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3445 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3446 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3447 are supported. (#16935)
3448 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3453 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3456 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3460 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3464 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3465 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3466 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3467 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3468 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3469 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3473 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3476 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3477 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3479 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3480 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3481 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3482 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3483 a given package, or -i or -a.
3484 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3485 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3486 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3487 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3488 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3489 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3490 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3491 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3492 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3494 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3495 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3496 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3500 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3503 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3504 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3509 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3512 does not have a section.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3516 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3519 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3520 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3521 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3525 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Fixed typo #16215.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3531 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3534 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3535 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3536 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3537 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3538 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3543 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3546 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3547 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3548 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3553 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3559 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3565 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3568 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3569 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3570 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3571 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3572 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3573 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3577 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3583 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3586 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3590 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3593 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3594 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3595 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3599 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3602 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3606 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3612 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3615 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3619 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3622 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3626 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3632 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3635 postinst, postrm, etc.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3639 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3645 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3648 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3649 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3650 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3651 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3652 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3656 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3659 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3660 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3664 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3667 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3671 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3674 installing package files into.
3675 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3680 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3684 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3688 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3694 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3697 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3701 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3704 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3705 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3706 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3707 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3711 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3713 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3714 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3715 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3716 multiple binary packages.
3717 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3718 should rebuild them with this version.
3719 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3723 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3726 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3730 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3733 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3737 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3740 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3741 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3742 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3743 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3744 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3745 debian/README.debian.
3746 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3747 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3748 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3749 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3750 in a few situations.)
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3754 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3760 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3766 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3769 * Fixed several man pages.
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3773 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3776 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3777 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3781 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3784 is ready for general use.
3785 * Added man pages for all commands.
3786 * Multiple binary package support.
3787 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3788 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3789 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3791 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3792 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3793 auto-installed as parameters.
3794 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3796 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3799 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3800 the package build directory it is to act on.
3801 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3802 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3803 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3807 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3809 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3810 ready to replace debstd.
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400