1 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
4 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
5 * fixed dh_testdir man page
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
9 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Typo, Closes: #122679
12 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
13 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
17 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
19 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
23 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
26 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
27 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
28 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
29 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
30 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
35 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
37 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
41 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
44 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
48 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
51 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
56 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Typo, Closes: #114135
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
62 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
65 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
69 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
75 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
79 Also some indentation fixes.
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
83 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
86 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
87 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
88 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
89 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
90 Closes: #106514, #85520
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
94 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Typo, Closes: #104405
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
100 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
106 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
108 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
112 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
118 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
124 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
127 change it in debhelper v4..
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
131 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
137 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
140 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
144 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
147 is not essential. Closes: #100430
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
151 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
157 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
160 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
161 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
162 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
163 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
164 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
165 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
166 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
167 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
168 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
169 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
170 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
171 prefixed with ".debhelper")
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
175 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
178 look just like shared libs, but are not.
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
182 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
189 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
192 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
193 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
194 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
195 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
196 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
197 program those options go to. So, for example,
198 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
199 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
200 something complex. Closes: #89311
201 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
205 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
208 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
209 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
210 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
214 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
217 through loop. Closes: #98598
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
221 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
223 * Missing semi-colon.
224 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
225 this (dh_* should be called, really).
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
229 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
232 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
233 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
234 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
238 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
241 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
242 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
246 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
249 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
253 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
256 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
257 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
261 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
264 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
265 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
266 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
270 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
273 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
274 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
275 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
279 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
282 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
286 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
292 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Typo, Closes: #92407
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
298 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
304 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
310 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
313 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
317 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
320 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
321 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
322 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
323 followed. Closes: #85483
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
327 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
329 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
330 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
331 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
335 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
338 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
339 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
340 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
341 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
342 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
343 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
344 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
345 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
346 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
347 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
348 Closes: #88464, #77743
349 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
350 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
351 us to deal with that gracefully.
352 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
354 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
355 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
356 a while, Closes: #51225
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
360 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
366 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
369 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
373 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
377 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
382 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
385 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
386 don't make packlist files.
387 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
388 debhelper coding standards.
389 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
390 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
394 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
396 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
397 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
401 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
404 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
405 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
406 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
407 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
408 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
409 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
410 but is mildly deprecated.
411 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
412 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
413 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
414 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
415 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
416 switching to statoverrides..
417 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
418 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
419 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
420 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
421 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
422 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
424 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
425 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
426 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
427 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
428 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
429 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
430 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
431 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
432 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
434 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
435 variable names, pod man pages).
436 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
437 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
438 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
439 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
440 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
441 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
442 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
446 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
452 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
459 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
462 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
466 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
468 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
469 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
470 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
474 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
476 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
477 they were previously ignored.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
481 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
483 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
484 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
488 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
490 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
491 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
492 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
496 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
498 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
502 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
504 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
505 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
509 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
511 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
512 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
513 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
514 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
515 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
516 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
517 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
518 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
519 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
520 it is an obsolete program.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
524 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
526 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
530 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
534 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
536 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
538 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
540 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
542 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
544 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
546 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
550 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
556 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
558 * typo: Closes, #78567
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
562 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
568 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
574 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
576 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
577 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
578 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
579 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
580 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
581 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
585 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
588 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
593 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
596 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
597 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
598 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
599 backwards-compatability.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
603 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
605 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
606 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
607 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
608 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
609 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
610 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
611 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
613 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
614 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
615 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
617 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
619 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
620 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
621 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
622 should now be raised to severity important..
623 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
624 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
628 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
631 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
636 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Typo, Closes: #77441
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
642 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Completed the fix from the last version.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
648 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
654 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
656 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
661 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
664 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
665 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
666 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
667 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
671 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
677 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
680 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
681 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
682 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
683 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
684 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
685 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
690 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
693 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
697 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
703 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
706 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
711 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
714 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
715 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
716 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
717 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
721 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
725 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
728 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
730 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
731 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
732 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
735 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
737 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
738 the TODO entry about it.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
742 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
749 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
752 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
753 prevent that. Closes: #73052
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
757 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Typo, Closes: #72932
760 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
761 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
762 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
763 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
767 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
773 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
780 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
782 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
783 (this appears to be logal).
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
787 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
790 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
791 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
792 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
793 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
797 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
803 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
805 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
806 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
807 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
808 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
809 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
813 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
819 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
822 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
826 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
833 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
836 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
837 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
838 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
843 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
850 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
852 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
856 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
858 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
859 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
860 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
861 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
862 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
863 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
864 notice until v2 is complete.
865 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
866 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
867 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
868 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
869 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
870 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
872 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
873 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
874 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
875 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
879 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
885 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
892 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
895 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
899 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
906 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
909 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
910 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
911 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
912 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
917 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
920 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
921 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
922 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
927 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
930 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
931 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
935 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
938 just skip files that end in -\d+.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
942 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
945 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
949 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
956 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
958 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
959 depend on the build and install targets.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
963 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
965 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
966 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
970 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
977 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
983 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
989 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
992 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
993 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
994 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
995 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
996 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
997 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
999 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1000 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1001 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1002 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1003 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1004 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1005 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1009 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1015 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1021 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1024 right place. Closes: #55065
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1028 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1035 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1038 * Copyright date updates.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1042 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1045 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1050 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1056 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1063 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1069 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1075 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1081 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1084 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1085 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1086 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1087 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1088 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1089 bits until all files have been registered.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1093 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_installmanpages:
1096 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1097 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1098 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1099 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1100 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1101 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1102 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1103 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1104 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1105 otherwise change the result at all.
1107 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1108 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1109 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1110 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1111 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1116 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1122 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1125 act on files that don't exist.
1126 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1127 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1128 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1130 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1131 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1132 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1133 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1137 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1143 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1149 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1152 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1156 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1159 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1161 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1162 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1163 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1167 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1170 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1171 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1172 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1173 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1174 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1175 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1176 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1178 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1180 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1184 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1191 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1197 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1203 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1206 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1210 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1222 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1225 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1226 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1227 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1228 I made some changes, though:
1229 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1230 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1231 that is a clear violation of policy.
1232 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1233 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1234 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1235 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1236 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1237 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1238 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1239 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1240 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1242 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1246 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1255 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1259 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1262 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1263 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1268 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1274 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1281 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1284 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1285 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1286 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1287 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1288 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1289 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1290 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1294 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1300 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1304 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1305 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1309 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1315 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1318 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1322 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1325 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1326 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1330 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1332 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1337 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1341 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1345 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1348 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1349 for the dependancies to be generated.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1353 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1356 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1360 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1363 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1364 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1365 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1370 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1373 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1374 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1378 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1384 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1390 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1393 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1397 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1403 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1406 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1407 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1408 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1409 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1410 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1411 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1412 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1413 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1414 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1415 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1416 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1417 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1421 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1424 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1425 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1427 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1428 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1429 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1430 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1431 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1432 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1434 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1435 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1439 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1442 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1446 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1453 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1456 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1461 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1464 for building debhelper.
1465 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1469 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1476 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1479 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1483 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1486 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1487 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1488 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1489 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1490 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1491 it's always available.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1495 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1498 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1499 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1500 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1507 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1508 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1512 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1518 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1521 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1525 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1531 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1534 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1535 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1536 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1540 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1543 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1548 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1551 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1552 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1554 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1555 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1559 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1565 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1571 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1574 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1578 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1581 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1582 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1584 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1588 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1591 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1592 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1593 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1597 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1600 things if CDPATH is set.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1604 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1610 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1613 seems to make sense for the transition.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1617 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1620 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1625 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1628 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1629 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1633 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1636 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1640 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1643 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1644 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1645 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1646 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1650 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1656 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1659 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1660 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1661 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1662 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1663 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1664 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1665 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1666 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1667 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1668 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1673 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1676 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1677 * README: mention doc/v2
1678 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1679 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1683 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1685 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1686 be using this script RSN.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1690 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1693 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1694 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1695 more than 1 init script.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1699 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1702 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1706 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Changed perl version detection.
1709 * Changed call to find.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1713 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1716 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1718 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1723 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Really include dh_installpam.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1729 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1732 * Wrote man page for same.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1736 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1739 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1740 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1745 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1752 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1755 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1756 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1757 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1758 x bit was being set!
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1762 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1765 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1766 well. (Closes: 38900)
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1770 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1773 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1774 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1778 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1784 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1791 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1797 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1800 help from Julian Gilbey.
1801 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1802 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1803 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1804 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1805 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1806 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1807 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1812 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1818 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1825 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1831 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1837 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1840 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1844 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1847 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1851 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1854 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1858 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1864 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1867 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1871 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1877 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1883 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1886 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1887 may be deleted. (#35845)
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1891 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Various man page enhancements.
1894 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1899 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1902 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1903 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1907 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1910 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1911 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1912 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1914 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1915 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1920 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1926 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Another very minor typo fix.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1932 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Very minor typo fix.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1938 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1941 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1942 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1946 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1952 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1955 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1956 variables properly (#34850).
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1960 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1966 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1969 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1970 (automatically generated by build process).
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1974 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1976 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1980 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1983 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1984 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1986 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1990 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1993 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1997 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * README: minor typo fix.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2003 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2006 leave it at that. :-)
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2010 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2016 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2022 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2025 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2026 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2027 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2031 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2034 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2038 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2041 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2045 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2048 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2049 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2050 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2051 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2055 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2058 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2059 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2060 Craig Small for spotting this.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2064 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2067 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2068 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2072 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2078 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2081 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2085 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2087 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2088 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2089 working on the last version of debhelper.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2093 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2096 being made. (#23255)
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2100 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2106 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2109 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2113 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2116 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2117 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2118 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2119 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2123 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2126 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2127 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2128 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2129 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2131 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2132 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2134 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2139 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2145 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2151 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2154 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2155 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2156 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2157 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2158 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2159 suidregister actually supports it.
2160 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2161 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2165 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2172 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2175 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2176 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2177 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2178 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2179 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2180 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2181 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2185 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2187 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2188 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2192 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2195 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2196 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2197 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2198 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2202 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2205 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2207 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2208 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2209 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2210 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2211 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2212 effect, either. (#30118)
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2216 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2222 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2225 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2226 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2230 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2236 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2239 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2240 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2241 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2242 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2246 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2249 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2250 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2254 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2260 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2263 packages, painlessly.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2267 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2273 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2279 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2285 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * The perl conversion is complete.
2289 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2291 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2292 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2293 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2298 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2301 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2302 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2303 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2307 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2310 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2312 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2314 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2315 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2319 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2322 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2323 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2327 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2333 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2336 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2337 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2338 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2339 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2340 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2344 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2347 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2348 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2349 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2350 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2354 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2357 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2361 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2364 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2365 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2366 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2367 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2368 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2369 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2370 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2371 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2375 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2381 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2384 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2385 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2386 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2391 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2394 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2398 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2401 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2405 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2408 sections of shared libraries.
2409 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2410 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2411 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2412 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2413 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2414 things you don't want them to.
2415 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2416 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2420 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2423 shared libraries. (#26414)
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2427 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2429 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2430 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2431 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2432 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2436 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2440 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2442 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2443 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2444 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2445 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2446 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2450 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2453 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2457 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2460 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2461 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2466 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2469 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2473 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2476 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2477 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2478 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2479 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2480 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2482 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2483 remove debian/files properly.
2484 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2485 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2486 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2487 * Removed bogus menu file.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2491 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2494 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2498 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2501 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2502 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2503 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2504 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2505 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2506 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2510 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2513 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2514 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2515 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2516 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2520 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2527 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2530 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2531 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2533 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2534 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2535 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2536 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2537 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2538 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2542 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2545 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2546 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2547 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2548 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2549 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2550 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2551 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2552 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2553 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2554 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2555 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2556 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2557 passed any switches.
2558 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2562 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2565 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2566 at all for a long while.
2567 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2568 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2569 large chunks in the process.
2570 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2571 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2572 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2577 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2580 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2582 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2587 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2590 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2591 that don't always have the same files in them.
2592 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2593 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2594 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2598 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2602 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2603 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2604 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2605 updating 27 man pages.
2606 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2607 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2608 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2609 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2610 programs act on. (#25247)
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2614 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2618 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2619 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2620 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2621 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2622 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2623 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2628 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2635 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2642 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2645 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2649 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2655 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2658 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2659 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2660 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2661 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2662 package by accident.
2663 * Is version 1.0 next?
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2667 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2670 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2671 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2675 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2678 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2679 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2680 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2681 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2682 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2684 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2689 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2692 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2693 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2697 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2700 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2704 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2707 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2708 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2713 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2719 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2722 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2723 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2728 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2734 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2737 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2738 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2739 past week. Thanks, guys!
2741 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2742 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2743 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2744 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2745 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2746 would do in the same situation.
2747 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2748 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2750 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2752 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2753 permissions changed.
2754 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2755 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2756 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2757 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2758 files are treated identically.
2759 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2760 * Minor man page fixes.
2761 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2762 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2763 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2767 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2770 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2771 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2772 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2773 use -X multiple times, too.
2774 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2775 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2779 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2782 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2783 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2787 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2790 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2794 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2797 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2798 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2799 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2800 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2801 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2802 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2803 shape if you're starting a new package.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2807 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2810 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2814 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2817 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2818 because of missing symlinks.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2822 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2828 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2831 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2832 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2833 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2834 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2835 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2837 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2838 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2842 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2844 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2845 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2846 to be changed after the fact :-)
2847 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2851 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2854 no version string after the -V.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2858 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2860 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2861 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2866 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2869 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2873 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2876 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2877 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2878 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2879 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2880 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2881 I always welcome corrections!
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2885 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2891 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2894 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2895 * Documented this new switch.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2899 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2902 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2903 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2904 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2905 no packages use the old behavior.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2909 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2912 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2913 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2917 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2920 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2924 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2930 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2933 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2937 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2940 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2941 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2942 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2946 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2952 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2955 into the source package by accident.
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2959 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2962 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2963 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2964 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2965 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2966 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2967 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2972 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2976 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2977 inspired to implement some of it.
2978 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2982 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2985 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2989 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2992 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2993 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2997 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3000 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3001 have done.) (#17598)
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3005 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3011 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3017 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3020 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3024 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3027 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3028 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3032 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3035 argument processor in perl.
3036 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3037 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3038 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3039 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3043 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3046 type directories. (#16933)
3047 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3048 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3049 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3050 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3051 are supported. (#16935)
3052 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3057 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3060 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3064 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3068 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3069 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3070 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3071 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3072 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3073 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3077 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3080 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3081 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3083 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3084 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3085 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3086 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3087 a given package, or -i or -a.
3088 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3089 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3090 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3091 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3092 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3093 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3094 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3095 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3096 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3098 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3099 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3100 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3104 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3107 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3108 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3113 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3116 does not have a section.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3120 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3123 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3124 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3125 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3129 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * Fixed typo #16215.
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3135 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3138 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3139 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3140 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3141 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3142 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3147 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3150 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3151 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3152 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3157 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3163 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3169 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3172 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3173 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3174 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3175 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3176 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3177 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3181 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3187 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3190 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3194 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3197 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3198 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3199 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3203 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3206 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3210 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3216 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3219 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3223 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3226 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3230 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3236 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3239 postinst, postrm, etc.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3243 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3249 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3252 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3253 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3254 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3255 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3256 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3260 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3263 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3264 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3268 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3271 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3275 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3278 installing package files into.
3279 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3284 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3288 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3292 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3298 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3301 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3305 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3308 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3309 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3310 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3311 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3315 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3317 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3318 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3319 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3320 multiple binary packages.
3321 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3322 should rebuild them with this version.
3323 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3327 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3330 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3334 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3337 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3341 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3344 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3345 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3346 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3347 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3348 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3349 debian/README.debian.
3350 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3351 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3352 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3353 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3354 in a few situations.)
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3358 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3364 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3370 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3373 * Fixed several man pages.
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3377 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3380 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3381 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3385 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3388 is ready for general use.
3389 * Added man pages for all commands.
3390 * Multiple binary package support.
3391 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3392 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3393 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3395 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3396 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3397 auto-installed as parameters.
3398 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3400 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3403 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3404 the package build directory it is to act on.
3405 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3406 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3407 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3411 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3413 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3414 ready to replace debstd.
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400