1 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
4 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
9 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
12 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
16 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
22 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
24 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
28 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
31 it break hard links (see #188663).
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
35 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
38 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
42 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
48 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
52 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
53 debconf-mergetemplates
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
57 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
60 pod2man. Closes: #184013
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
64 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
67 * Typo, Closes: #183267
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
71 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
74 * Update debhelper(1).
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
78 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
80 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
81 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
82 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
83 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
84 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
85 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
89 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
92 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
93 the shell. Closes: #178524
94 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
98 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
101 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
105 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
108 undocumented.7 links anymore.
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
112 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
114 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
115 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
116 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
117 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
118 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
123 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
126 files from installation.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
130 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
133 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
134 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
138 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
141 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
145 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
148 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
152 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
158 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
164 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
168 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
169 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
171 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
175 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
178 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
179 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
180 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
181 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
185 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
187 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
188 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
192 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
195 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
196 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
200 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
204 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
209 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
215 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
219 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
220 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
221 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
226 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
229 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
230 practice. Closes: #163303
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
234 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
236 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
240 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
247 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
249 * The "reverse hangover" release.
250 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
252 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
253 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
254 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
255 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
256 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
260 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
263 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
268 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
274 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
281 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
284 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
289 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
295 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
301 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
307 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
314 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
317 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
318 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
319 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
320 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
325 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Typo, Closes: #155323
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
331 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
338 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
341 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
342 * Removed dh_installxaw.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
346 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
349 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
350 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
351 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
352 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
353 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
357 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
360 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
362 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
367 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
369 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
370 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
374 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
377 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
378 right thing. Closes: #150644
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
382 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
389 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
391 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
396 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
399 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
400 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
405 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
411 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
414 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
418 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
420 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
421 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
422 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
427 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
430 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
434 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
440 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
443 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
444 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
448 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
454 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Removing perl warning message.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
460 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
463 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
464 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
465 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
466 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
467 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
468 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
469 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
470 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
474 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
476 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
480 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
487 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
490 debconf-mergetemplate.
491 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
492 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
496 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
498 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
499 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
500 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
501 dh_install, which ...
502 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
503 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
504 mess, as it uses debian/install.
505 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
506 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
507 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
508 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
509 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
510 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
511 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
512 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
513 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
514 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
515 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
517 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
518 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
519 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
520 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
521 course there's -X ..)
522 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
523 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
524 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
526 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
527 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
528 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
529 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
530 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
535 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
541 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Typo, Closes: #139176
544 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
548 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
554 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
560 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
566 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
572 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
575 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
576 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
577 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
578 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
580 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
581 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
585 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
591 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
593 * Typo, Closes: #132454
594 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
598 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
601 upset. Closes: #131322
603 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
605 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
608 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
609 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
610 line, as well as in debian/rules.
611 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
612 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
613 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
614 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
615 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
616 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
617 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
618 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
619 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
620 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
621 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
622 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
624 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
628 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
631 - Better indenting of generated code.
632 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
636 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
638 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
640 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
641 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
642 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
643 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
644 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
645 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
646 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
650 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
653 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
657 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
660 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
661 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
662 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
663 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
664 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
665 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
666 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
667 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
668 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
669 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
670 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
671 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
672 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
673 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
674 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
679 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
685 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
687 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
688 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
689 * fixed dh_testdir man page
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
693 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Typo, Closes: #122679
696 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
697 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
701 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
707 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
710 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
711 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
712 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
713 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
714 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
719 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
721 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
725 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
728 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
732 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
735 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
740 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Typo, Closes: #114135
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
746 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
749 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
753 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
759 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
763 Also some indentation fixes.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
767 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
769 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
770 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
771 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
772 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
773 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
774 Closes: #106514, #85520
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
778 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Typo, Closes: #104405
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
784 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
790 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
792 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
796 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
802 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
808 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
811 change it in debhelper v4..
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
815 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
821 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
824 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
828 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
831 is not essential. Closes: #100430
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
835 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
837 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
841 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
844 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
845 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
846 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
847 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
848 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
849 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
850 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
851 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
852 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
853 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
854 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
855 prefixed with ".debhelper")
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
859 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
862 look just like shared libs, but are not.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
866 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
873 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
876 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
877 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
878 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
879 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
880 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
881 program those options go to. So, for example,
882 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
883 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
884 something complex. Closes: #89311
885 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
889 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
891 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
892 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
893 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
894 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
898 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
901 through loop. Closes: #98598
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
905 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Missing semi-colon.
908 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
909 this (dh_* should be called, really).
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
913 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
916 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
917 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
918 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
922 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
925 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
926 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
930 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
933 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
937 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
940 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
941 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
945 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
948 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
949 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
950 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
954 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
957 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
958 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
959 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
963 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
966 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
970 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
976 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Typo, Closes: #92407
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
982 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
988 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
994 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
997 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1001 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1004 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1005 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1006 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1007 followed. Closes: #85483
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1011 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1013 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1014 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1015 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1019 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1022 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1023 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1024 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1025 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1026 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1027 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1028 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1029 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1030 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1031 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1032 Closes: #88464, #77743
1033 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1034 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1035 us to deal with that gracefully.
1036 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1038 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1039 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1040 a while, Closes: #51225
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1044 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1050 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1053 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1057 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1061 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1066 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1069 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1070 don't make packlist files.
1071 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1072 debhelper coding standards.
1073 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1074 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1078 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1081 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1085 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1088 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1089 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1090 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1091 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1092 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1093 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1094 but is mildly deprecated.
1095 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1096 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1097 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1098 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1099 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1100 switching to statoverrides..
1101 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1102 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1103 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1104 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1105 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1106 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1108 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1109 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1110 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1111 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1112 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1113 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1114 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1115 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1116 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1118 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1119 variable names, pod man pages).
1120 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1121 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1122 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1123 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1124 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1125 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1126 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1130 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1136 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1143 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1146 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1150 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1152 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1153 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1154 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1158 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1160 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1161 they were previously ignored.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1165 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1167 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1168 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1172 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1174 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1175 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1176 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1180 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1182 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1186 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1188 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1189 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1193 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1195 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1196 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1197 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1198 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1199 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1200 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1201 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1202 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1203 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1204 it is an obsolete program.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1208 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1210 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1214 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1218 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1220 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1224 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1226 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1228 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1230 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1234 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1240 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * typo: Closes, #78567
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1246 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1252 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1258 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1261 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1262 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1263 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1264 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1265 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1269 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1272 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1277 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1280 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1281 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1282 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1283 backwards-compatability.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1287 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1290 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1291 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1292 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1293 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1294 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1295 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1297 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1298 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1299 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1301 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1303 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1304 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1305 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1306 should now be raised to severity important..
1307 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1308 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1312 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1315 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1320 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1326 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1332 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1338 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1345 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1348 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1349 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1350 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1351 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1355 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1361 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1364 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1365 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1366 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1367 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1368 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1369 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1374 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1377 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1381 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1387 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1390 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1395 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1398 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1399 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1400 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1401 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1405 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1409 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1412 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1415 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1416 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1419 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1421 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1422 the TODO entry about it.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1426 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1433 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1436 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1437 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1441 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1444 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1445 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1446 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1447 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1451 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1457 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1464 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1467 (this appears to be logal).
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1471 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1474 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1475 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1476 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1477 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1481 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1487 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1490 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1491 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1492 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1493 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1503 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1506 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1517 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1520 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1521 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1522 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1527 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1534 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1540 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1543 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1544 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1545 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1546 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1547 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1548 notice until v2 is complete.
1549 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1550 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1551 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1552 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1553 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1554 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1556 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1557 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1558 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1559 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1563 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1569 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1576 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1579 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1583 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1590 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1593 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1594 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1595 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1596 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1601 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1604 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1605 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1606 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1611 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1614 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1615 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1619 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1622 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1626 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1629 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1633 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1640 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1643 depend on the build and install targets.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1647 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1650 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1654 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1661 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1667 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1673 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1676 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1677 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1678 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1679 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1680 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1681 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1683 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1684 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1685 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1686 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1687 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1688 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1689 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1693 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1699 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1705 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1708 right place. Closes: #55065
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1712 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1719 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1722 * Copyright date updates.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1726 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1729 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1734 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1740 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1747 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1753 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1759 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1765 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1768 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1769 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1770 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1771 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1772 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1773 bits until all files have been registered.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1777 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_installmanpages:
1780 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1781 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1782 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1783 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1784 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1785 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1786 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1787 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1788 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1789 otherwise change the result at all.
1791 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1792 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1793 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1794 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1795 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1800 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1806 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1809 act on files that don't exist.
1810 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1811 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1812 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1814 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1815 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1816 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1817 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1821 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1827 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1833 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1836 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1840 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1843 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1845 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1846 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1847 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1851 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1854 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1855 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1856 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1857 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1858 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1859 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1860 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1862 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1864 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1868 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1875 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1881 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1887 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1890 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1894 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1900 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1909 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1910 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1911 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1912 I made some changes, though:
1913 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1914 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1915 that is a clear violation of policy.
1916 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1917 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1918 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1919 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1920 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1921 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1922 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1923 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1924 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1926 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1930 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1939 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1943 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1946 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1947 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1952 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1958 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1965 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1968 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1969 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1970 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1971 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1972 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1973 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1974 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1978 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1984 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1988 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1989 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1993 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1999 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2002 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2006 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2009 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2010 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2014 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2016 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2021 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2025 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2029 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2032 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2033 for the dependancies to be generated.
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2037 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2040 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2044 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2047 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2048 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2049 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2054 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2057 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2058 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2062 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2068 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2074 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2077 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2081 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2087 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2090 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2091 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2092 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2093 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2094 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2095 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2096 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2097 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2098 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2099 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2100 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2101 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2105 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2108 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2109 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2111 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2112 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2113 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2114 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2115 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2116 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2118 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2119 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2123 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2126 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2130 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2137 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2140 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2145 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2148 for building debhelper.
2149 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2153 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2160 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2163 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2167 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2170 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2171 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2172 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2173 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2174 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2175 it's always available.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2179 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2182 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2183 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2184 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2188 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2191 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2192 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2196 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2202 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2205 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2209 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2215 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2218 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2219 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2220 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2224 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2227 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2232 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2235 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2236 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2238 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2239 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2243 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2249 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2255 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2258 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2262 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2265 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2266 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2268 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2272 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2275 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2276 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2277 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2281 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2284 things if CDPATH is set.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2288 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2294 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2297 seems to make sense for the transition.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2301 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2304 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2309 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2312 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2313 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2317 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2320 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2324 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2327 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2328 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2329 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2330 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2334 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2340 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2343 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2344 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2345 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2346 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2347 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2348 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2349 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2350 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2351 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2352 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2357 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2360 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2361 * README: mention doc/v2
2362 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2363 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2367 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2369 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2370 be using this script RSN.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2374 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2377 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2378 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2379 more than 1 init script.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2383 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2386 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2390 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Changed perl version detection.
2393 * Changed call to find.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2397 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2400 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2402 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2407 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Really include dh_installpam.
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2413 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2416 * Wrote man page for same.
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2420 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2423 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2424 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2429 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2436 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2439 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2440 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2441 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2442 x bit was being set!
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2446 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2449 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2450 well. (Closes: 38900)
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2454 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2457 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2458 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2462 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2468 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2475 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2481 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2484 help from Julian Gilbey.
2485 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2486 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2487 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2488 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2489 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2490 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2491 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2496 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2502 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2509 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2515 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2521 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2524 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2528 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2531 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2535 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2538 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2542 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2548 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2551 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2555 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2561 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2567 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2570 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2571 may be deleted. (#35845)
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2575 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Various man page enhancements.
2578 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2583 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2586 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2587 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2591 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2594 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2595 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2596 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2598 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2599 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2604 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2610 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Another very minor typo fix.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2616 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Very minor typo fix.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2622 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2625 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2626 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2630 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2636 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2639 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2640 variables properly (#34850).
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2644 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2650 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2653 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2654 (automatically generated by build process).
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2658 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2660 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2664 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2667 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2668 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2670 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2674 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2677 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2681 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * README: minor typo fix.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2687 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2690 leave it at that. :-)
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2694 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2700 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2706 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2709 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2710 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2711 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2715 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2718 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2722 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2725 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2729 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2732 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2733 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2734 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2735 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2739 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2742 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2743 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2744 Craig Small for spotting this.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2748 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2751 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2752 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2756 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2762 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2765 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2769 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2771 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2772 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2773 working on the last version of debhelper.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2777 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2780 being made. (#23255)
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2784 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2790 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2793 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2797 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2800 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2801 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2802 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2803 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2807 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2810 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2811 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2812 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2813 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2815 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2816 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2818 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2823 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2829 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2835 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2838 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2839 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2840 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2841 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2842 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2843 suidregister actually supports it.
2844 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2845 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2849 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2856 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2859 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2860 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2861 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2862 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2863 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2864 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2865 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2869 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2871 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2872 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2876 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2879 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2880 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2881 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2882 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2886 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2889 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2891 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2892 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2893 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2894 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2895 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2896 effect, either. (#30118)
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2900 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2906 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2909 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2910 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2914 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2920 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2923 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2924 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2925 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2926 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2930 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2933 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2934 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2938 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2944 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2947 packages, painlessly.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2951 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2957 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2963 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2969 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * The perl conversion is complete.
2973 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2975 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2976 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2977 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2982 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2985 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2986 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2987 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2991 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2994 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2996 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2998 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2999 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3003 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3006 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3007 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3011 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3017 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3020 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3021 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3022 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3023 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3024 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3028 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3031 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3032 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3033 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3034 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3038 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3041 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3045 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3048 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3049 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3050 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3051 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3052 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3053 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3054 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3055 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3059 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3065 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3068 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3069 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3070 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3075 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3078 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3082 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3085 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3089 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3092 sections of shared libraries.
3093 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3094 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3095 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3096 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3097 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3098 things you don't want them to.
3099 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3100 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3104 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3107 shared libraries. (#26414)
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3111 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3113 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3114 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3115 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3116 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3120 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3124 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3126 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3127 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3128 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3129 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3130 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3134 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3137 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3141 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3144 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3145 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3150 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3153 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3157 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3160 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3161 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3162 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3163 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3164 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3166 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3167 remove debian/files properly.
3168 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3169 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3170 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3171 * Removed bogus menu file.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3175 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3178 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3182 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3185 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3186 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3187 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3188 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3189 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3190 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3194 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3197 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3198 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3199 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3200 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3204 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3211 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3214 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3215 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3217 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3218 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3219 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3220 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3221 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3222 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3226 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3229 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3230 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3231 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3232 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3233 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3234 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3235 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3236 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3237 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3238 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3239 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3240 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3241 passed any switches.
3242 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3246 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3249 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3250 at all for a long while.
3251 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3252 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3253 large chunks in the process.
3254 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3255 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3256 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3261 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3264 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3266 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3271 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3274 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3275 that don't always have the same files in them.
3276 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3277 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3278 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3282 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3286 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3287 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3288 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3289 updating 27 man pages.
3290 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3291 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3292 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3293 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3294 programs act on. (#25247)
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3298 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3302 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3303 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3304 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3305 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3306 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3307 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3312 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3319 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3326 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3329 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3333 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3339 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3342 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3343 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3344 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3345 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3346 package by accident.
3347 * Is version 1.0 next?
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3351 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3354 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3355 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3359 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3362 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3363 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3364 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3365 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3366 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3368 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3373 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3376 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3377 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3381 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3384 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3388 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3391 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3392 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3397 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3403 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3406 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3407 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3412 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3418 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3421 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3422 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3423 past week. Thanks, guys!
3425 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3426 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3427 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3428 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3429 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3430 would do in the same situation.
3431 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3432 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3434 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3436 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3437 permissions changed.
3438 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3439 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3440 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3441 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3442 files are treated identically.
3443 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3444 * Minor man page fixes.
3445 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3446 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3447 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3451 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3454 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3455 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3456 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3457 use -X multiple times, too.
3458 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3459 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3463 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3466 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3467 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3471 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3474 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3478 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3481 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3482 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3483 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3484 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3485 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3486 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3487 shape if you're starting a new package.
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3491 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3494 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3498 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3501 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3502 because of missing symlinks.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3506 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3512 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3515 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3516 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3517 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3518 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3519 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3521 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3522 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3526 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3528 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3529 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3530 to be changed after the fact :-)
3531 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3535 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3538 no version string after the -V.
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3542 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3544 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3545 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3550 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3553 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3557 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3560 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3561 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3562 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3563 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3564 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3565 I always welcome corrections!
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3569 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3575 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3578 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3579 * Documented this new switch.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3583 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3586 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3587 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3588 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3589 no packages use the old behavior.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3593 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3596 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3597 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3601 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3604 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3608 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3614 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3617 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3621 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3624 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3625 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3626 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3630 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3636 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3639 into the source package by accident.
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3643 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3646 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3647 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3648 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3649 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3650 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3651 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3656 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3660 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3661 inspired to implement some of it.
3662 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3666 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3669 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3673 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3676 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3677 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3681 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3684 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3685 have done.) (#17598)
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3689 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3695 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3701 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3704 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3708 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3711 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3712 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3716 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3719 argument processor in perl.
3720 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3721 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3722 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3723 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3727 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3730 type directories. (#16933)
3731 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3732 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3733 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3734 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3735 are supported. (#16935)
3736 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3741 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3744 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3748 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3752 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3753 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3754 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3755 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3756 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3757 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3761 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3764 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3765 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3767 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3768 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3769 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3770 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3771 a given package, or -i or -a.
3772 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3773 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3774 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3775 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3776 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3777 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3778 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3779 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3780 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3782 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3783 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3784 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3788 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3791 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3792 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3797 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3800 does not have a section.
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3804 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3807 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3808 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3809 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3813 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Fixed typo #16215.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3819 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3822 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3823 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3824 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3825 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3826 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3831 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3834 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3835 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3836 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3841 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3847 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3853 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3856 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3857 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3858 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3859 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3860 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3861 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3865 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3871 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3874 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3878 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3881 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3882 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3883 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3887 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3890 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3894 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3900 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3903 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3907 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3910 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3914 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3920 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3923 postinst, postrm, etc.
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3927 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3933 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3936 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3937 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3938 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3939 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3940 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3944 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3947 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3948 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3952 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3955 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3959 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3962 installing package files into.
3963 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3968 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3972 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3976 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3982 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3985 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3989 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3992 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3993 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3994 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3995 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3999 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4001 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4002 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4003 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4004 multiple binary packages.
4005 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4006 should rebuild them with this version.
4007 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4011 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4014 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4018 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4021 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4025 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4028 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4029 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4030 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4031 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4032 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4033 debian/README.debian.
4034 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4035 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4036 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4037 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4038 in a few situations.)
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4042 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4048 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4054 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4057 * Fixed several man pages.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4061 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4064 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4065 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4069 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4072 is ready for general use.
4073 * Added man pages for all commands.
4074 * Multiple binary package support.
4075 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4076 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4077 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4079 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4080 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4081 auto-installed as parameters.
4082 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4084 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4087 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4088 the package build directory it is to act on.
4089 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4090 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4091 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4095 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4097 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4098 ready to replace debstd.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400