1 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
4 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
8 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
11 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
15 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
18 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
22 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
25 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
30 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Typo. Closes: #207999
33 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
37 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
40 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
45 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
47 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
48 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
52 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
56 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
57 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
58 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
59 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
60 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
61 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
62 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
63 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
64 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
65 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
69 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
72 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
77 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
80 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
81 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
85 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
88 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
89 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
94 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
97 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
101 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
104 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
108 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
111 out section number. Closes: #204731
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
115 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
122 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
128 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
134 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Typo, Closes: #203907
137 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
138 removal. Closes: #204286
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
142 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
145 renaming. Closes: #203548
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
149 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
152 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
153 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
157 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
163 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
169 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
175 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
178 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
179 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
180 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
184 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
187 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
188 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
192 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
198 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
200 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
205 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
208 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
213 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
216 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
220 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
223 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
225 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
226 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
230 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
233 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
238 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
241 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
245 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
251 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
253 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
257 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
260 it break hard links (see #188663).
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
264 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
266 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
267 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
271 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
277 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
281 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
282 debconf-mergetemplates
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
286 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
289 pod2man. Closes: #184013
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
293 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
296 * Typo, Closes: #183267
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
300 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
303 * Update debhelper(1).
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
307 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
309 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
310 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
311 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
312 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
313 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
314 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
318 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
321 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
322 the shell. Closes: #178524
323 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
327 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
330 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
334 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
337 undocumented.7 links anymore.
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
341 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
343 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
344 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
345 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
346 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
347 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
352 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
355 files from installation.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
359 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
362 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
363 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
367 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
370 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
374 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
377 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
381 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
383 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
387 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
389 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
393 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
397 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
398 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
400 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
404 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
407 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
408 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
409 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
410 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
414 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
416 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
417 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
421 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
424 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
425 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
429 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
433 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
438 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
444 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
448 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
449 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
450 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
455 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
458 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
459 practice. Closes: #163303
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
463 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
465 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
469 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
471 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
476 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
478 * The "reverse hangover" release.
479 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
481 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
482 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
483 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
484 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
485 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
489 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
492 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
497 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
503 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
510 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
512 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
513 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
518 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
524 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
530 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
536 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
543 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
546 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
547 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
548 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
549 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
554 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Typo, Closes: #155323
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
560 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
567 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
569 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
570 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
571 * Removed dh_installxaw.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
575 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
578 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
579 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
580 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
581 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
582 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
586 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
589 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
591 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
596 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
598 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
599 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
603 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
606 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
607 right thing. Closes: #150644
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
611 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
618 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
620 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
625 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
628 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
629 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
634 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
640 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
643 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
647 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
650 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
651 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
656 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
659 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
663 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
669 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
672 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
673 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
677 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
683 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Removing perl warning message.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
689 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
692 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
693 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
694 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
695 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
696 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
697 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
698 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
699 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
703 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
709 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
716 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
719 debconf-mergetemplate.
720 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
721 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
725 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
728 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
729 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
730 dh_install, which ...
731 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
732 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
733 mess, as it uses debian/install.
734 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
735 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
736 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
737 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
738 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
739 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
740 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
741 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
742 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
743 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
744 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
746 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
747 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
748 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
749 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
750 course there's -X ..)
751 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
752 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
753 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
755 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
756 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
757 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
758 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
759 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
764 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
770 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Typo, Closes: #139176
773 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
777 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
783 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
789 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
795 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
801 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
804 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
805 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
806 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
807 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
809 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
810 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
814 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
820 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Typo, Closes: #132454
823 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
827 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
830 upset. Closes: #131322
832 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
834 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
837 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
838 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
839 line, as well as in debian/rules.
840 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
841 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
842 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
843 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
844 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
845 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
846 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
847 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
848 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
849 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
850 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
851 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
853 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
857 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
860 - Better indenting of generated code.
861 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
865 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
869 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
870 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
871 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
872 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
873 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
874 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
875 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
879 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
882 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
886 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
889 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
890 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
891 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
892 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
893 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
894 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
895 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
896 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
897 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
898 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
899 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
900 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
901 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
902 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
903 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
908 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
914 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
917 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
918 * fixed dh_testdir man page
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
922 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Typo, Closes: #122679
925 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
926 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
930 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
936 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
938 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
939 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
940 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
941 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
942 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
943 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
948 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
950 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
954 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
957 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
961 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
964 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
969 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Typo, Closes: #114135
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
975 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
978 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
982 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
988 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
992 Also some indentation fixes.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
996 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
999 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1000 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1001 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1002 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1003 Closes: #106514, #85520
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1007 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1013 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1019 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1025 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1031 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1037 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1040 change it in debhelper v4..
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1044 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1050 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1053 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1057 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1060 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1064 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1070 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1073 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1074 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1075 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1076 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1077 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1078 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1079 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1080 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1081 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1082 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1083 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1084 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1088 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1091 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1095 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1102 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1105 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1106 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1107 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1108 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1109 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1110 program those options go to. So, for example,
1111 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1112 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1113 something complex. Closes: #89311
1114 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1118 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1121 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1122 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1123 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1127 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1130 through loop. Closes: #98598
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1134 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Missing semi-colon.
1137 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1138 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1142 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1145 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1146 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1147 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1151 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1154 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1155 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1159 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1162 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1166 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1169 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1170 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1174 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1177 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1178 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1179 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1183 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1186 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1187 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1188 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1192 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1195 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1199 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1205 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1211 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1217 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1223 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1226 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1230 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1233 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1234 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1235 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1236 followed. Closes: #85483
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1240 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1242 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1243 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1244 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1248 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1251 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1252 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1253 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1254 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1255 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1256 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1257 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1258 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1259 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1260 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1261 Closes: #88464, #77743
1262 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1263 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1264 us to deal with that gracefully.
1265 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1267 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1268 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1269 a while, Closes: #51225
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1273 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1279 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1282 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1286 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1290 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1295 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1298 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1299 don't make packlist files.
1300 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1301 debhelper coding standards.
1302 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1303 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1307 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1310 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1314 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1317 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1318 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1319 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1320 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1321 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1322 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1323 but is mildly deprecated.
1324 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1325 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1326 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1327 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1328 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1329 switching to statoverrides..
1330 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1331 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1332 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1333 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1334 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1335 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1337 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1338 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1339 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1340 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1341 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1342 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1343 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1344 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1345 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1347 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1348 variable names, pod man pages).
1349 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1350 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1351 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1352 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1353 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1354 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1355 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1359 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1365 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1372 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1375 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1379 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1381 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1382 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1383 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1387 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1389 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1390 they were previously ignored.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1394 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1396 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1397 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1401 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1403 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1404 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1405 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1409 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1411 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1415 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1417 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1418 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1422 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1424 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1425 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1426 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1427 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1428 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1429 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1430 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1431 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1432 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1433 it is an obsolete program.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1437 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1439 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1443 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1447 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1449 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1453 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1455 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1457 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1459 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1463 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1469 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * typo: Closes, #78567
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1475 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1481 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1487 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1490 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1491 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1492 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1493 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1494 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1498 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1501 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1506 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1509 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1510 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1511 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1512 backwards-compatability.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1516 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1519 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1520 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1521 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1522 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1523 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1524 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1526 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1527 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1528 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1530 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1532 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1533 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1534 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1535 should now be raised to severity important..
1536 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1537 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1541 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1544 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1549 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1555 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1561 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1567 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1574 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1577 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1578 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1579 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1580 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1584 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1590 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1593 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1594 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1595 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1596 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1597 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1598 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1603 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1606 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1610 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1616 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1619 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1624 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1627 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1628 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1629 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1630 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1634 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1638 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1641 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1644 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1645 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1648 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1650 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1651 the TODO entry about it.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1655 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1662 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1665 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1666 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1670 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1673 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1674 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1675 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1676 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1680 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1686 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1693 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1696 (this appears to be logal).
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1700 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1703 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1704 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1705 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1706 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1710 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1716 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1719 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1720 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1721 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1722 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1726 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1732 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1735 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1739 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1746 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1749 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1750 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1751 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1756 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1763 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1772 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1773 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1774 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1775 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1776 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1777 notice until v2 is complete.
1778 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1779 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1780 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1781 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1782 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1783 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1785 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1786 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1787 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1788 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1792 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1798 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1805 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1808 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1812 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1819 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1822 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1823 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1824 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1825 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1830 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1833 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1834 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1835 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1840 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1843 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1844 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1848 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1851 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1855 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1858 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1862 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1869 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1872 depend on the build and install targets.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1876 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1879 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1883 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1890 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1896 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1902 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1905 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1906 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1907 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1908 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1909 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1910 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1912 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1913 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1914 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1915 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1916 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1917 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1918 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1922 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1928 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1934 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1937 right place. Closes: #55065
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1941 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1948 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1951 * Copyright date updates.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1955 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1958 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1963 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1969 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1976 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1982 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1988 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1994 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1997 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1998 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1999 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2000 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2001 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2002 bits until all files have been registered.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2006 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_installmanpages:
2009 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2010 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2011 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2012 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2013 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2014 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2015 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2016 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2017 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2018 otherwise change the result at all.
2020 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2021 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2022 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2023 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2024 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2029 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2035 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2038 act on files that don't exist.
2039 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2040 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2041 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2043 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2044 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2045 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2046 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2050 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2056 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2062 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2065 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2069 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2072 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2074 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2075 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2076 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2080 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2083 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2084 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2085 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2086 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2087 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2088 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2089 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2091 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2093 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2097 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2104 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2110 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2116 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2119 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2123 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2129 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2135 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2138 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2139 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2140 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2141 I made some changes, though:
2142 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2143 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2144 that is a clear violation of policy.
2145 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2146 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2147 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2148 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2149 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2150 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2151 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2152 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2153 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2155 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2159 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2165 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2168 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2172 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2175 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2176 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2181 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2187 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2194 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2197 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2198 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2199 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2200 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2201 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2202 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2203 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2207 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2213 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2217 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2218 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2222 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2228 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2231 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2235 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2238 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2239 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2243 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2245 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2250 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2254 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2258 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2261 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2262 for the dependancies to be generated.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2266 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2269 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2273 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2276 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2277 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2278 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2283 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2286 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2287 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2291 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2297 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2303 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2306 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2310 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2316 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2319 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2320 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2321 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2322 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2323 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2324 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2325 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2326 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2327 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2328 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2329 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2330 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2334 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2337 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2338 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2340 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2341 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2342 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2343 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2344 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2345 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2347 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2348 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2352 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2355 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2359 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2366 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2369 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2374 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2377 for building debhelper.
2378 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2382 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2389 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2392 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2396 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2399 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2400 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2401 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2402 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2403 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2404 it's always available.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2408 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2411 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2412 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2413 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2417 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2420 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2421 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2425 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2431 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2434 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2438 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2444 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2447 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2448 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2449 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2453 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2456 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2461 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2464 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2465 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2467 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2468 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2472 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2478 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2484 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2487 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2491 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2494 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2495 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2497 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2501 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2504 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2505 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2506 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2510 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2513 things if CDPATH is set.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2517 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2523 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2526 seems to make sense for the transition.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2530 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2533 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2538 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2541 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2542 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2546 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2549 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2553 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2556 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2557 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2558 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2559 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2563 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2569 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2572 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2573 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2574 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2575 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2576 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2577 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2578 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2579 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2580 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2581 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2586 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2589 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2590 * README: mention doc/v2
2591 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2592 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2596 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2598 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2599 be using this script RSN.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2603 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2606 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2607 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2608 more than 1 init script.
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2612 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2615 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2619 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * Changed perl version detection.
2622 * Changed call to find.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2626 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2629 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2631 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2636 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Really include dh_installpam.
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2642 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2645 * Wrote man page for same.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2649 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2652 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2653 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2658 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2665 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2668 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2669 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2670 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2671 x bit was being set!
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2675 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2678 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2679 well. (Closes: 38900)
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2683 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2686 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2687 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2691 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2697 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2704 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2710 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2713 help from Julian Gilbey.
2714 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2715 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2716 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2717 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2718 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2719 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2720 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2725 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2731 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2738 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2744 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2750 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2753 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2757 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2759 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2760 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2764 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2767 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2771 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2777 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2780 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2784 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2790 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2796 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2799 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2800 may be deleted. (#35845)
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2804 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Various man page enhancements.
2807 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2812 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2815 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2816 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2820 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2823 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2824 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2825 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2827 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2828 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2833 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2839 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Another very minor typo fix.
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2845 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Very minor typo fix.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2851 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2854 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2855 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2859 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2865 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2868 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2869 variables properly (#34850).
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2873 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2879 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2882 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2883 (automatically generated by build process).
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2887 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2889 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2893 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2896 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2897 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2899 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2903 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2906 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2910 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * README: minor typo fix.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2916 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2919 leave it at that. :-)
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2923 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2929 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2935 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2938 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2939 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2940 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2944 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2947 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2951 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2954 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2958 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2961 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2962 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2963 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2964 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2968 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2971 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2972 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2973 Craig Small for spotting this.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2977 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2980 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2981 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2985 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2991 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2994 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2998 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3000 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3001 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3002 working on the last version of debhelper.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3006 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3009 being made. (#23255)
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3013 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3019 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3022 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3026 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3029 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3030 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3031 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3032 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3036 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3039 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3040 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3041 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3042 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3044 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3045 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3047 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3052 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3058 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3064 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3067 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3068 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3069 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3070 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3071 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3072 suidregister actually supports it.
3073 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3074 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3078 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3085 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3088 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3089 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3090 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3091 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3092 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3093 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3094 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3098 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3100 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3101 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3105 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3108 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3109 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3110 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3111 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3115 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3118 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3120 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3121 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3122 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3123 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3124 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3125 effect, either. (#30118)
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3129 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3135 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3138 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3139 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3143 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3149 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3152 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3153 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3154 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3155 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3159 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3162 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3163 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3167 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3173 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3176 packages, painlessly.
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3180 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3186 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3192 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3198 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * The perl conversion is complete.
3202 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3204 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3205 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3206 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3211 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3214 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3215 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3216 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3220 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3223 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3225 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3227 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3228 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3232 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3235 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3236 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3240 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3246 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3249 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3250 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3251 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3252 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3253 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3257 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3260 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3261 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3262 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3263 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3267 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3270 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3274 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3277 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3278 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3279 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3280 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3281 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3282 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3283 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3284 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3288 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3294 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3297 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3298 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3299 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3304 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3307 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3311 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3314 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3318 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3321 sections of shared libraries.
3322 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3323 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3324 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3325 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3326 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3327 things you don't want them to.
3328 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3329 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3333 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3336 shared libraries. (#26414)
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3340 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3342 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3343 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3344 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3345 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3349 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3353 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3355 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3356 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3357 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3358 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3359 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3363 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3366 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3370 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3373 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3374 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3379 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3382 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3386 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3389 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3390 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3391 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3392 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3393 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3395 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3396 remove debian/files properly.
3397 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3398 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3399 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3400 * Removed bogus menu file.
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3404 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3407 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3411 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3414 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3415 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3416 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3417 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3418 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3419 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3423 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3426 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3427 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3428 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3429 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3433 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3440 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3443 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3444 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3446 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3447 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3448 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3449 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3450 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3451 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3455 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3458 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3459 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3460 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3461 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3462 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3463 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3464 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3465 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3466 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3467 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3468 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3469 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3470 passed any switches.
3471 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3475 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3478 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3479 at all for a long while.
3480 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3481 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3482 large chunks in the process.
3483 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3484 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3485 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3490 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3493 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3495 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3500 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3503 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3504 that don't always have the same files in them.
3505 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3506 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3507 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3511 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3515 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3516 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3517 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3518 updating 27 man pages.
3519 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3520 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3521 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3522 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3523 programs act on. (#25247)
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3527 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3531 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3532 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3533 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3534 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3535 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3536 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3541 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3548 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3555 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3558 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3562 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3568 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3571 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3572 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3573 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3574 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3575 package by accident.
3576 * Is version 1.0 next?
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3580 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3583 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3584 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3588 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3591 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3592 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3593 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3594 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3595 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3597 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3602 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3605 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3606 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3610 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3613 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3617 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3620 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3621 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3626 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3632 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3635 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3636 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3641 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3647 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3650 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3651 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3652 past week. Thanks, guys!
3654 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3655 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3656 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3657 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3658 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3659 would do in the same situation.
3660 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3661 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3663 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3665 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3666 permissions changed.
3667 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3668 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3669 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3670 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3671 files are treated identically.
3672 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3673 * Minor man page fixes.
3674 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3675 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3676 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3680 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3683 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3684 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3685 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3686 use -X multiple times, too.
3687 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3688 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3692 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3695 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3696 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3700 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3703 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3707 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3709 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3710 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3711 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3712 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3713 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3714 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3715 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3716 shape if you're starting a new package.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3720 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3723 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3727 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3730 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3731 because of missing symlinks.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3735 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3741 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3744 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3745 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3746 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3747 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3748 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3750 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3751 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3755 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3757 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3758 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3759 to be changed after the fact :-)
3760 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3764 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3767 no version string after the -V.
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3771 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3773 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3774 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3779 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3782 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3786 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3789 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3790 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3791 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3792 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3793 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3794 I always welcome corrections!
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3798 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3804 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3807 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3808 * Documented this new switch.
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3812 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3815 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3816 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3817 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3818 no packages use the old behavior.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3822 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3825 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3826 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3830 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3833 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3837 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3843 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3845 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3846 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3850 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3853 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3854 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3855 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3859 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3865 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3868 into the source package by accident.
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3872 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3875 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3876 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3877 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3878 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3879 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3880 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3885 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3889 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3890 inspired to implement some of it.
3891 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3895 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3898 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3902 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3905 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3906 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3910 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3913 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3914 have done.) (#17598)
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3918 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3924 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3930 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3933 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3937 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3940 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3941 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3945 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3948 argument processor in perl.
3949 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3950 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3951 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3952 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3956 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3959 type directories. (#16933)
3960 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3961 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3962 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3963 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3964 are supported. (#16935)
3965 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3970 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3973 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3977 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3981 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3982 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3983 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3984 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3985 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3986 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3990 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3993 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3994 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3996 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3997 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3998 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3999 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4000 a given package, or -i or -a.
4001 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4002 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4003 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4004 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4005 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4006 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4007 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4008 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4009 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4011 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4012 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4013 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4017 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4020 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4021 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4026 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4029 does not have a section.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4033 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4036 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4037 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4038 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4042 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Fixed typo #16215.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4048 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4051 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4052 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4053 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4054 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4055 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4060 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4063 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4064 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4065 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4070 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4076 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4082 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4085 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4086 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4087 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4088 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4089 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4090 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4094 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4100 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4103 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4107 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4110 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4111 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4112 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4116 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4119 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4123 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4129 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4132 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4136 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4139 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4143 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4149 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4152 postinst, postrm, etc.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4156 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4162 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4165 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4166 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4167 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4168 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4169 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4173 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4176 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4177 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4181 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4184 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4188 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4191 installing package files into.
4192 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4197 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4201 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4205 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4211 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4214 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4218 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4221 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4222 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4223 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4224 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4228 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4230 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4231 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4232 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4233 multiple binary packages.
4234 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4235 should rebuild them with this version.
4236 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4240 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4243 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4247 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4250 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4254 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4257 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4258 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4259 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4260 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4261 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4262 debian/README.debian.
4263 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4264 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4265 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4266 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4267 in a few situations.)
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4271 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4277 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4283 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4286 * Fixed several man pages.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4290 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4293 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4294 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4298 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4301 is ready for general use.
4302 * Added man pages for all commands.
4303 * Multiple binary package support.
4304 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4305 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4306 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4308 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4309 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4310 auto-installed as parameters.
4311 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4313 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4316 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4317 the package build directory it is to act on.
4318 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4319 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4320 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4324 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4326 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4327 ready to replace debstd.
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400