1 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
7 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
10 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
14 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
17 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
18 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
19 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
21 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
23 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
24 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
25 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
29 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
32 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
37 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
40 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
41 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
42 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
47 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
53 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
59 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
62 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
63 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
64 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
65 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
66 associated -dbg packages.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
70 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
73 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
77 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
80 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
84 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
87 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
91 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
94 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
99 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Typo. Closes: #207999
102 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
106 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
109 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
114 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
117 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
121 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
125 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
126 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
127 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
128 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
129 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
130 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
131 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
132 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
133 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
134 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
138 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
141 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
146 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
149 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
150 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
154 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
157 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
158 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
163 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
166 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
170 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
173 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
177 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
180 out section number. Closes: #204731
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
184 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
191 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
197 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
203 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Typo, Closes: #203907
206 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
207 removal. Closes: #204286
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
211 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
214 renaming. Closes: #203548
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
218 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
221 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
222 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
226 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
232 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
238 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
244 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
247 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
248 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
249 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
253 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
256 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
257 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
261 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
267 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
274 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
277 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
282 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
285 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
289 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
292 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
294 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
295 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
299 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
302 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
307 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
310 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
314 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
320 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
322 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
326 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
329 it break hard links (see #188663).
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
333 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
336 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
340 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
346 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
350 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
351 debconf-mergetemplates
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
355 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
358 pod2man. Closes: #184013
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
362 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
364 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
365 * Typo, Closes: #183267
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
369 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
372 * Update debhelper(1).
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
376 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
378 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
379 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
380 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
381 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
382 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
383 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
387 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
390 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
391 the shell. Closes: #178524
392 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
396 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
399 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
403 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
406 undocumented.7 links anymore.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
410 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
412 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
413 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
414 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
415 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
416 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
421 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
424 files from installation.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
428 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
431 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
432 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
436 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
439 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
443 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
446 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
450 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
456 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
462 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
466 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
467 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
469 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
473 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
476 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
477 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
478 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
479 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
483 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
485 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
486 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
490 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
493 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
494 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
498 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
502 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
507 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
513 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
517 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
518 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
519 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
524 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
527 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
528 practice. Closes: #163303
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
532 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
538 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
545 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
547 * The "reverse hangover" release.
548 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
550 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
551 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
552 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
553 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
554 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
558 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
561 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
566 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
572 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
579 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
582 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
587 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
593 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
599 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
605 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
612 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
615 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
616 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
617 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
618 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
623 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Typo, Closes: #155323
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
629 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
636 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
639 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
640 * Removed dh_installxaw.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
644 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
647 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
648 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
649 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
650 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
651 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
655 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
658 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
660 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
665 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
667 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
668 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
672 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
675 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
676 right thing. Closes: #150644
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
680 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
687 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
689 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
694 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
697 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
698 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
703 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
709 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
712 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
716 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
719 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
720 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
725 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
728 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
732 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
738 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
741 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
742 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
746 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
752 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Removing perl warning message.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
758 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
761 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
762 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
763 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
764 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
765 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
766 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
767 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
768 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
772 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
778 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
785 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
787 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
788 debconf-mergetemplate.
789 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
790 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
794 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
797 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
798 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
799 dh_install, which ...
800 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
801 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
802 mess, as it uses debian/install.
803 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
804 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
805 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
806 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
807 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
808 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
809 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
810 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
811 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
812 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
813 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
815 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
816 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
817 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
818 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
819 course there's -X ..)
820 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
821 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
822 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
824 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
825 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
826 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
827 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
828 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
833 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
839 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Typo, Closes: #139176
842 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
846 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
852 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
858 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
864 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
870 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
873 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
874 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
875 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
876 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
878 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
879 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
883 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
889 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
891 * Typo, Closes: #132454
892 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
896 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
899 upset. Closes: #131322
901 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
903 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
906 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
907 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
908 line, as well as in debian/rules.
909 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
910 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
911 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
912 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
913 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
914 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
915 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
916 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
917 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
918 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
919 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
920 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
922 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
926 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
929 - Better indenting of generated code.
930 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
934 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
938 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
939 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
940 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
941 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
942 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
943 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
944 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
948 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
951 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
955 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
958 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
959 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
960 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
961 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
962 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
963 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
964 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
965 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
966 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
967 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
968 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
969 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
970 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
971 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
972 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
977 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
983 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
986 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
987 * fixed dh_testdir man page
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
991 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Typo, Closes: #122679
994 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
995 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
999 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1005 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1008 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1009 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1010 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1011 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1012 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1017 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1023 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1026 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1030 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1033 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1038 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1044 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1047 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1051 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1057 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1061 Also some indentation fixes.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1065 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1068 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1069 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1070 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1071 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1072 Closes: #106514, #85520
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1076 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1082 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1088 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1094 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1100 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1106 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1109 change it in debhelper v4..
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1113 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1119 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1122 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1126 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1129 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1133 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1139 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1142 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1143 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1144 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1145 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1146 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1147 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1148 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1149 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1150 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1151 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1152 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1153 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1157 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1160 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1164 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1171 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1174 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1175 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1176 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1177 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1178 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1179 program those options go to. So, for example,
1180 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1181 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1182 something complex. Closes: #89311
1183 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1187 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1190 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1191 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1192 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1196 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1199 through loop. Closes: #98598
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1203 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Missing semi-colon.
1206 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1207 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1211 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1214 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1215 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1216 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1220 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1223 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1224 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1228 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1231 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1235 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1238 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1239 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1243 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1246 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1247 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1248 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1252 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1255 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1256 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1257 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1261 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1264 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1268 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1274 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1280 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1286 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1292 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1295 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1299 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1302 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1303 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1304 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1305 followed. Closes: #85483
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1309 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1311 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1312 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1313 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1317 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1320 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1321 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1322 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1323 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1324 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1325 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1326 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1327 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1328 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1329 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1330 Closes: #88464, #77743
1331 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1332 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1333 us to deal with that gracefully.
1334 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1336 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1337 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1338 a while, Closes: #51225
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1342 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1348 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1351 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1355 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1359 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1364 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1367 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1368 don't make packlist files.
1369 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1370 debhelper coding standards.
1371 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1372 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1376 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1379 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1383 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1386 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1387 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1388 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1389 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1390 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1391 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1392 but is mildly deprecated.
1393 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1394 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1395 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1396 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1397 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1398 switching to statoverrides..
1399 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1400 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1401 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1402 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1403 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1404 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1406 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1407 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1408 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1409 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1410 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1411 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1412 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1413 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1414 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1416 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1417 variable names, pod man pages).
1418 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1419 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1420 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1421 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1422 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1423 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1424 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1428 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1434 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1441 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1444 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1448 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1450 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1451 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1452 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1456 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1458 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1459 they were previously ignored.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1463 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1465 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1466 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1470 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1472 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1473 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1474 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1478 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1480 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1484 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1486 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1487 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1491 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1493 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1494 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1495 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1496 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1497 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1498 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1499 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1500 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1501 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1502 it is an obsolete program.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1506 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1508 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1512 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1516 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1518 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1522 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1524 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1526 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1528 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1532 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1538 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * typo: Closes, #78567
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1544 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1550 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1556 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1559 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1560 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1561 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1562 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1563 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1567 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1570 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1575 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1578 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1579 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1580 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1581 backwards-compatability.
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1585 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1588 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1589 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1590 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1591 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1592 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1593 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1595 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1596 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1597 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1599 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1601 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1602 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1603 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1604 should now be raised to severity important..
1605 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1606 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1610 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1613 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1618 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1624 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1630 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1636 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1643 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1646 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1647 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1648 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1649 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1653 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1659 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1662 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1663 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1664 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1665 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1666 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1667 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1672 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1675 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1679 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1685 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1688 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1693 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1696 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1697 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1698 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1699 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1703 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1707 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1710 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1713 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1714 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1717 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1719 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1720 the TODO entry about it.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1724 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1731 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1734 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1735 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1739 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1742 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1743 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1744 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1745 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1749 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1755 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1762 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1765 (this appears to be logal).
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1772 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1773 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1774 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1775 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1779 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1785 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1788 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1789 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1790 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1791 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1795 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1801 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1804 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1808 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1818 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1819 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1820 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1825 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1832 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1838 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1841 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1842 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1843 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1844 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1845 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1846 notice until v2 is complete.
1847 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1848 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1849 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1850 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1851 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1852 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1854 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1855 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1856 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1857 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1861 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1867 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1874 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1877 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1881 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1888 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1891 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1892 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1893 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1894 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1899 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1902 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1903 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1904 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1909 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1912 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1913 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1917 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1920 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1924 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1927 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1931 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1938 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1941 depend on the build and install targets.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1945 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1948 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1952 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1959 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1965 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1971 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1974 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1975 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1976 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1977 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1978 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1979 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1981 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1982 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1983 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1984 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1985 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1986 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1987 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1991 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1997 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2003 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2006 right place. Closes: #55065
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2010 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2017 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2020 * Copyright date updates.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2024 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2027 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2032 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2038 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2045 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2051 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2057 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2063 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2066 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2067 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2068 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2069 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2070 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2071 bits until all files have been registered.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2075 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_installmanpages:
2078 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2079 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2080 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2081 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2082 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2083 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2084 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2085 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2086 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2087 otherwise change the result at all.
2089 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2090 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2091 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2092 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2093 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2098 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2104 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2107 act on files that don't exist.
2108 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2109 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2110 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2112 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2113 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2114 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2115 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2119 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2125 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2131 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2134 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2138 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2141 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2143 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2144 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2145 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2149 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2152 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2153 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2154 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2155 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2156 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2157 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2158 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2160 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2162 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2166 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2173 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2179 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2185 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2188 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2192 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2198 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2204 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2207 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2208 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2209 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2210 I made some changes, though:
2211 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2212 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2213 that is a clear violation of policy.
2214 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2215 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2216 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2217 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2218 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2219 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2220 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2221 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2222 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2224 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2228 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2234 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2237 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2241 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2244 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2245 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2250 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2256 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2263 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2266 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2267 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2268 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2269 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2270 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2271 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2272 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2276 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2282 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2286 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2287 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2291 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2297 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2300 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2304 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2307 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2308 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2312 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2314 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2319 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2323 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2327 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2330 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2331 for the dependancies to be generated.
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2335 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2338 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2342 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2345 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2346 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2347 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2352 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2355 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2356 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2360 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2366 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2372 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2375 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2379 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2385 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2388 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2389 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2390 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2391 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2392 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2393 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2394 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2395 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2396 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2397 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2398 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2399 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2403 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2406 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2407 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2409 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2410 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2411 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2412 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2413 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2414 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2416 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2417 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2421 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2424 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2428 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2435 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2438 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2443 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2446 for building debhelper.
2447 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2451 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2458 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2461 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2465 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2468 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2469 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2470 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2471 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2472 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2473 it's always available.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2477 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2480 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2481 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2482 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2486 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2489 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2490 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2494 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2500 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2503 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2507 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2513 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2516 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2517 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2518 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2522 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2525 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2530 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2533 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2534 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2536 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2537 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2541 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2547 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2553 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2556 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2560 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2563 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2564 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2566 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2570 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2573 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2574 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2575 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2579 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2582 things if CDPATH is set.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2586 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2592 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2595 seems to make sense for the transition.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2599 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2602 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2607 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2610 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2611 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2615 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2618 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2622 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2625 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2626 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2627 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2628 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2632 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2638 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2641 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2642 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2643 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2644 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2645 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2646 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2647 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2648 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2649 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2650 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2655 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2658 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2659 * README: mention doc/v2
2660 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2661 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2665 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2667 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2668 be using this script RSN.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2672 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2675 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2676 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2677 more than 1 init script.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2681 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2684 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2688 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Changed perl version detection.
2691 * Changed call to find.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2695 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2698 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2700 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2705 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Really include dh_installpam.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2711 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2714 * Wrote man page for same.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2718 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2721 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2722 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2727 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2734 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2737 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2738 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2739 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2740 x bit was being set!
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2744 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2747 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2748 well. (Closes: 38900)
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2752 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2755 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2756 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2760 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2766 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2773 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2779 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2782 help from Julian Gilbey.
2783 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2784 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2785 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2786 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2787 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2788 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2789 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2794 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2800 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2807 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2813 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2819 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2822 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2826 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2829 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2833 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2836 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2840 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2846 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2849 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2853 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2859 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2865 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2868 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2869 may be deleted. (#35845)
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2873 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Various man page enhancements.
2876 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2881 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2884 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2885 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2889 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2892 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2893 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2894 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2896 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2897 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2902 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2908 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Another very minor typo fix.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2914 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Very minor typo fix.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2920 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2923 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2924 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2928 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2934 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2937 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2938 variables properly (#34850).
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2942 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2948 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2951 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2952 (automatically generated by build process).
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2956 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2958 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2962 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2965 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2966 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2968 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2972 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2975 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2979 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * README: minor typo fix.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2985 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2988 leave it at that. :-)
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2992 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2998 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3004 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3007 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3008 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3009 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3013 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3016 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3020 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3023 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3027 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3030 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3031 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3032 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3033 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3037 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3040 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3041 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3042 Craig Small for spotting this.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3046 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3049 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3050 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3054 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3060 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3063 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3067 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3069 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3070 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3071 working on the last version of debhelper.
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3075 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3078 being made. (#23255)
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3082 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3088 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3091 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3095 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3098 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3099 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3100 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3101 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3105 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3108 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3109 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3110 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3111 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3113 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3114 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3116 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3121 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3127 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3133 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3136 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3137 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3138 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3139 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3140 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3141 suidregister actually supports it.
3142 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3143 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3147 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3154 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3157 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3158 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3159 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3160 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3161 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3162 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3163 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3167 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3169 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3170 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3174 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3177 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3178 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3179 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3180 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3184 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3187 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3189 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3190 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3191 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3192 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3193 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3194 effect, either. (#30118)
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3198 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3204 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3207 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3208 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3212 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3218 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3221 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3222 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3223 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3224 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3228 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3231 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3232 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3236 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3242 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3245 packages, painlessly.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3249 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3255 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3261 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3267 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * The perl conversion is complete.
3271 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3273 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3274 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3275 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3280 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3283 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3284 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3285 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3289 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3292 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3294 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3296 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3297 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3301 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3304 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3305 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3309 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3315 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3318 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3319 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3320 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3321 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3322 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3326 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3329 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3330 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3331 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3332 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3336 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3339 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3343 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3346 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3347 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3348 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3349 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3350 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3351 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3352 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3353 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3357 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3363 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3366 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3367 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3368 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3373 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3376 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3380 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3383 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3387 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3390 sections of shared libraries.
3391 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3392 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3393 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3394 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3395 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3396 things you don't want them to.
3397 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3398 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3402 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3405 shared libraries. (#26414)
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3409 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3411 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3412 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3413 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3414 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3418 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3422 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3424 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3425 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3426 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3427 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3428 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3432 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3435 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3439 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3442 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3443 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3448 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3451 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3455 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3458 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3459 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3460 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3461 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3462 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3464 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3465 remove debian/files properly.
3466 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3467 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3468 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3469 * Removed bogus menu file.
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3473 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3476 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3480 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3483 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3484 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3485 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3486 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3487 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3488 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3492 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3495 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3496 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3497 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3498 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3502 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3509 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3512 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3513 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3515 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3516 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3517 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3518 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3519 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3520 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3524 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3527 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3528 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3529 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3530 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3531 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3532 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3533 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3534 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3535 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3536 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3537 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3538 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3539 passed any switches.
3540 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3544 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3547 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3548 at all for a long while.
3549 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3550 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3551 large chunks in the process.
3552 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3553 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3554 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3559 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3562 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3564 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3569 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3572 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3573 that don't always have the same files in them.
3574 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3575 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3576 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3580 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3584 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3585 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3586 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3587 updating 27 man pages.
3588 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3589 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3590 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3591 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3592 programs act on. (#25247)
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3596 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3600 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3601 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3602 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3603 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3604 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3605 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3610 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3617 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3624 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3627 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3631 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3637 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3640 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3641 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3642 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3643 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3644 package by accident.
3645 * Is version 1.0 next?
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3649 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3652 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3653 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3657 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3660 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3661 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3662 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3663 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3664 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3666 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3671 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3674 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3675 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3679 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3682 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3686 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3689 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3690 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3695 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3701 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3704 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3705 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3710 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3716 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3719 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3720 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3721 past week. Thanks, guys!
3723 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3724 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3725 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3726 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3727 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3728 would do in the same situation.
3729 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3730 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3732 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3734 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3735 permissions changed.
3736 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3737 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3738 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3739 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3740 files are treated identically.
3741 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3742 * Minor man page fixes.
3743 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3744 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3745 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3749 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3752 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3753 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3754 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3755 use -X multiple times, too.
3756 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3757 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3761 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3764 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3765 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3769 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3772 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3776 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3779 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3780 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3781 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3782 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3783 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3784 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3785 shape if you're starting a new package.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3789 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3792 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3796 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3799 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3800 because of missing symlinks.
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3804 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3810 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3813 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3814 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3815 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3816 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3817 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3819 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3820 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3824 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3826 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3827 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3828 to be changed after the fact :-)
3829 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3833 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3835 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3836 no version string after the -V.
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3840 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3842 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3843 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3848 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3851 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3855 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3858 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3859 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3860 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3861 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3862 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3863 I always welcome corrections!
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3867 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3873 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3876 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3877 * Documented this new switch.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3881 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3884 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3885 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3886 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3887 no packages use the old behavior.
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3891 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3894 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3895 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3899 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3902 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3906 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3912 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3915 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3919 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3922 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3923 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3924 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3928 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3934 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3937 into the source package by accident.
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3941 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3944 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3945 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3946 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3947 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3948 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3949 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3954 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3958 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3959 inspired to implement some of it.
3960 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3964 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3967 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3971 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3974 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3975 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3979 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3982 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3983 have done.) (#17598)
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3987 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3993 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3999 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4002 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4006 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4009 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4010 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4014 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4017 argument processor in perl.
4018 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4019 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4020 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4021 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4025 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4028 type directories. (#16933)
4029 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4030 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4031 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4032 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4033 are supported. (#16935)
4034 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4039 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4042 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4046 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4050 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4051 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4052 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4053 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4054 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4055 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4059 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4062 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4063 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4065 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4066 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4067 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4068 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4069 a given package, or -i or -a.
4070 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4071 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4072 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4073 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4074 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4075 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4076 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4077 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4078 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4080 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4081 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4082 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4086 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4089 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4090 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4095 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4098 does not have a section.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4102 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4105 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4106 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4107 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4111 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * Fixed typo #16215.
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4117 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4120 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4121 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4122 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4123 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4124 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4129 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4132 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4133 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4134 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4139 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4145 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4151 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4154 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4155 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4156 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4157 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4158 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4159 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4163 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4169 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4172 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4176 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4179 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4180 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4181 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4185 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4188 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4192 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4198 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4201 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4205 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4208 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4212 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4218 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4221 postinst, postrm, etc.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4225 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4231 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4234 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4235 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4236 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4237 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4238 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4242 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4245 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4246 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4250 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4253 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4257 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4260 installing package files into.
4261 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4266 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4270 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4274 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4280 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4283 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4287 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4290 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4291 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4292 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4293 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4297 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4299 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4300 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4301 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4302 multiple binary packages.
4303 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4304 should rebuild them with this version.
4305 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4309 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4312 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4316 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4319 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4323 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4326 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4327 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4328 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4329 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4330 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4331 debian/README.debian.
4332 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4333 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4334 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4335 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4336 in a few situations.)
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4340 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4346 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4352 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4355 * Fixed several man pages.
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4359 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4362 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4363 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4367 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4370 is ready for general use.
4371 * Added man pages for all commands.
4372 * Multiple binary package support.
4373 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4374 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4375 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4377 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4378 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4379 auto-installed as parameters.
4380 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4382 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4385 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4386 the package build directory it is to act on.
4387 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4388 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4389 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4393 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4395 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4396 ready to replace debstd.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400