1 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
7 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
10 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
14 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
17 is not essential. Closes: #100430
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
21 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
27 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
30 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
31 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
32 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
33 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
34 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
35 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
36 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
37 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
38 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
39 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
40 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
41 prefixed with ".debhelper")
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
45 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
48 look just like shared libs, but are not.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
52 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
59 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
62 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
63 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
64 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
65 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
66 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
67 program those options go to. So, for example,
68 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
69 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
70 something complex. Closes: #89311
71 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
75 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
78 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
79 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
80 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
84 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
87 through loop. Closes: #98598
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
91 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
95 this (dh_* should be called, really).
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
99 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
102 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
103 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
104 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
108 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
111 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
112 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
116 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
119 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
123 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
126 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
127 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
131 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
134 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
135 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
136 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
140 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
143 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
144 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
145 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
149 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
152 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
156 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
162 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Typo, Closes: #92407
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
168 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
174 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
180 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
183 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
187 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
190 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
191 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
192 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
193 followed. Closes: #85483
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
197 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
199 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
200 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
201 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
205 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
208 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
209 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
210 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
211 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
212 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
213 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
214 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
215 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
216 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
217 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
218 Closes: #88464, #77743
219 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
220 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
221 us to deal with that gracefully.
222 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
224 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
225 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
226 a while, Closes: #51225
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
230 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
236 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
239 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
243 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
247 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
252 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
255 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
256 don't make packlist files.
257 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
258 debhelper coding standards.
259 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
260 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
264 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
266 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
267 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
271 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
274 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
275 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
276 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
277 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
278 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
279 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
280 but is mildly deprecated.
281 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
282 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
283 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
284 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
285 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
286 switching to statoverrides..
287 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
288 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
289 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
290 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
291 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
292 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
294 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
295 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
296 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
297 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
298 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
299 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
300 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
301 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
302 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
304 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
305 variable names, pod man pages).
306 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
307 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
308 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
309 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
310 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
311 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
312 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
316 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
322 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
329 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
332 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
336 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
338 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
339 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
340 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
344 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
346 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
347 they were previously ignored.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
351 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
353 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
354 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
358 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
360 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
361 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
362 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
366 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
368 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
372 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
374 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
375 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
379 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
381 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
382 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
383 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
384 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
385 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
386 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
387 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
388 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
389 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
390 it is an obsolete program.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
394 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
396 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
400 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
404 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
406 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
410 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
412 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
414 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
416 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
420 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
426 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
428 * typo: Closes, #78567
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
432 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
438 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
444 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
446 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
447 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
448 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
449 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
450 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
451 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
455 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
458 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
463 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
465 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
466 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
467 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
468 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
469 backwards-compatability.
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
473 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
475 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
476 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
477 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
478 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
479 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
480 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
481 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
483 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
484 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
485 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
487 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
489 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
490 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
491 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
492 should now be raised to severity important..
493 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
494 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
498 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
501 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
506 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Typo, Closes: #77441
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
512 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Completed the fix from the last version.
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
518 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
520 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
524 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
526 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
531 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
533 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
534 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
535 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
536 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
537 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
541 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
547 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
550 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
551 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
552 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
553 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
554 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
555 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
560 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
563 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
567 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
573 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
575 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
576 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
581 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
583 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
584 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
585 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
586 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
587 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
591 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
595 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
598 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
601 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
602 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
605 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
607 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
608 the TODO entry about it.
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
612 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
619 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
622 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
623 prevent that. Closes: #73052
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
627 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Typo, Closes: #72932
630 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
631 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
632 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
633 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
637 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
643 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
650 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
653 (this appears to be logal).
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
657 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
660 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
661 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
662 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
663 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
667 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
673 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
675 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
676 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
677 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
678 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
679 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
683 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
689 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
692 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
696 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
698 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
703 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
706 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
707 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
708 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
713 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
720 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
726 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
728 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
729 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
730 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
731 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
732 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
733 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
734 notice until v2 is complete.
735 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
736 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
737 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
738 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
739 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
740 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
742 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
743 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
744 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
745 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
749 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
755 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
762 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
765 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
769 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
776 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
779 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
780 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
781 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
782 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
787 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
790 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
791 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
792 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
797 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
800 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
801 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
805 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
808 just skip files that end in -\d+.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
812 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
815 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
819 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
826 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
828 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
829 depend on the build and install targets.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
833 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
836 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
840 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
847 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
853 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
859 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
862 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
863 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
864 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
865 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
866 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
867 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
869 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
870 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
871 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
872 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
873 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
874 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
875 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
879 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
885 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
891 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
894 right place. Closes: #55065
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
898 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
905 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Make all examples rules files executable.
908 * Copyright date updates.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
912 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
915 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
920 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
926 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
933 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
939 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
945 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
951 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
953 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
954 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
955 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
956 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
957 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
958 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
959 bits until all files have been registered.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
963 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_installmanpages:
966 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
967 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
968 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
969 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
970 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
971 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
972 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
973 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
974 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
975 otherwise change the result at all.
977 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
978 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
979 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
980 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
981 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
986 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
992 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
995 act on files that don't exist.
996 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
997 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
998 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1000 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1001 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1002 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1003 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1007 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1013 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1019 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1022 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1026 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1029 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1031 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1032 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1033 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1037 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1040 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1041 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1042 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1043 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1044 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1045 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1046 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1048 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1050 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1054 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1061 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1067 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1073 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1076 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1080 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1086 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1092 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1095 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1096 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1097 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1098 I made some changes, though:
1099 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1100 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1101 that is a clear violation of policy.
1102 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1103 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1104 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1105 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1106 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1107 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1108 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1109 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1110 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1112 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1116 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1122 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1125 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1129 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1132 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1133 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1138 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1144 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1151 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1154 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1155 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1156 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1157 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1158 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1159 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1160 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1164 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1170 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1174 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1175 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1179 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1185 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1188 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1192 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1195 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1196 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1200 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1202 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1207 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1211 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1215 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1218 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1219 for the dependancies to be generated.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1223 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1226 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1230 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1233 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1234 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1235 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1240 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1243 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1244 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1248 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1254 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1260 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1263 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1273 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1276 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1277 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1278 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1279 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1280 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1281 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1282 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1283 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1284 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1285 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1286 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1287 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1291 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1294 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1295 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1297 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1298 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1299 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1300 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1301 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1302 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1304 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1305 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1309 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1312 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1323 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1326 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1331 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1334 for building debhelper.
1335 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1339 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1346 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1349 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1353 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1356 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1357 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1358 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1359 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1360 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1361 it's always available.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1365 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1368 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1369 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1370 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1374 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1377 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1378 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1382 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1388 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1391 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1395 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1401 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1404 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1405 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1406 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1410 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1413 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1418 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1421 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1422 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1424 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1425 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1429 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1435 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1441 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1444 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1448 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1451 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1452 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1454 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1458 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1461 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1462 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1463 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1467 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1470 things if CDPATH is set.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1474 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1480 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1483 seems to make sense for the transition.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1487 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1490 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1495 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1498 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1499 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1503 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1506 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1513 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1514 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1515 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1516 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1520 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1526 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1529 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1530 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1531 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1532 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1533 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1534 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1535 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1536 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1537 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1538 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1543 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1546 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1547 * README: mention doc/v2
1548 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1549 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1553 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1555 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1556 be using this script RSN.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1560 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1563 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1564 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1565 more than 1 init script.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1569 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1572 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1576 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Changed perl version detection.
1579 * Changed call to find.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1583 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1586 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1588 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1593 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Really include dh_installpam.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1599 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1602 * Wrote man page for same.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1606 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1609 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1610 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1615 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1622 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1625 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1626 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1627 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1628 x bit was being set!
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1632 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1635 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1636 well. (Closes: 38900)
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1640 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1643 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1644 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1648 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1654 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1661 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1667 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1670 help from Julian Gilbey.
1671 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1672 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1673 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1674 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1675 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1676 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1677 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1682 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1688 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1695 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1701 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1707 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1710 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1714 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1717 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1721 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1724 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1728 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1734 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1737 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1741 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1747 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1753 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1756 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1757 may be deleted. (#35845)
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1761 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Various man page enhancements.
1764 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1769 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1772 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1773 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1777 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1780 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1781 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1782 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1784 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1785 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1790 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1796 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Another very minor typo fix.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1802 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Very minor typo fix.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1808 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1811 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1812 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1816 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1822 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1825 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1826 variables properly (#34850).
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1830 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1836 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1839 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1840 (automatically generated by build process).
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1844 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1846 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1850 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1853 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1854 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1856 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1860 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1863 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1867 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * README: minor typo fix.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1873 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1876 leave it at that. :-)
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1880 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1886 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1892 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1895 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1896 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1897 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1901 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1904 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1908 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1911 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1915 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1918 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1919 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1920 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1921 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1925 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1928 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1929 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1930 Craig Small for spotting this.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1934 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1937 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1938 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1942 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1948 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1951 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1955 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1957 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1958 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1959 working on the last version of debhelper.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1963 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1966 being made. (#23255)
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1970 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1976 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1979 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1983 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1986 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1987 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1988 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1989 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1993 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1996 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1997 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1998 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1999 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2001 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2002 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2004 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2009 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2015 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2021 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2024 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2025 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2026 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2027 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2028 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2029 suidregister actually supports it.
2030 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2031 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2035 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2042 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2045 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2046 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2047 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2048 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2049 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2050 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2051 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2055 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2057 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2058 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2062 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2065 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2066 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2067 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2068 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2072 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2075 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2077 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2078 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2079 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2080 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2081 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2082 effect, either. (#30118)
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2086 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2092 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2095 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2096 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2100 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2106 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2109 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2110 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2111 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2112 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2116 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2119 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2120 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2124 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2130 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2133 packages, painlessly.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2137 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2143 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2149 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2155 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * The perl conversion is complete.
2159 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2161 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2162 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2163 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2168 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2171 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2172 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2173 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2177 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2180 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2182 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2184 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2185 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2189 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2192 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2193 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2197 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2203 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2206 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2207 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2208 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2209 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2210 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2214 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2217 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2218 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2219 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2220 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2224 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2227 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2231 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2234 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2235 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2236 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2237 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2238 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2239 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2240 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2241 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2245 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2251 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2254 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2255 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2256 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2261 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2264 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2268 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2271 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2275 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2278 sections of shared libraries.
2279 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2280 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2281 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2282 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2283 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2284 things you don't want them to.
2285 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2286 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2290 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2293 shared libraries. (#26414)
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2297 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2299 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2300 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2301 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2302 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2306 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2310 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2312 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2313 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2314 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2315 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2316 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2320 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2323 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2327 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2330 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2331 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2336 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2339 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2343 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2346 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2347 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2348 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2349 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2350 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2352 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2353 remove debian/files properly.
2354 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2355 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2356 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2357 * Removed bogus menu file.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2361 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2364 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2368 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2371 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2372 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2373 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2374 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2375 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2376 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2380 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2383 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2384 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2385 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2386 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2390 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2397 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2400 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2401 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2403 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2404 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2405 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2406 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2407 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2408 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2412 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2415 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2416 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2417 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2418 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2419 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2420 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2421 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2422 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2423 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2424 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2425 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2426 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2427 passed any switches.
2428 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2432 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2435 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2436 at all for a long while.
2437 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2438 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2439 large chunks in the process.
2440 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2441 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2442 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2447 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2450 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2452 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2457 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2460 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2461 that don't always have the same files in them.
2462 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2463 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2464 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2468 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2472 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2473 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2474 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2475 updating 27 man pages.
2476 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2477 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2478 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2479 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2480 programs act on. (#25247)
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2484 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2488 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2489 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2490 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2491 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2492 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2493 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2498 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2505 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2512 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2515 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2519 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2525 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2528 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2529 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2530 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2531 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2532 package by accident.
2533 * Is version 1.0 next?
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2537 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2540 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2541 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2545 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2548 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2549 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2550 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2551 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2552 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2554 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2559 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2562 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2563 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2567 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2570 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2574 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2577 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2578 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2583 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2589 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2592 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2593 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2598 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2604 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2607 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2608 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2609 past week. Thanks, guys!
2611 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2612 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2613 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2614 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2615 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2616 would do in the same situation.
2617 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2618 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2620 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2622 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2623 permissions changed.
2624 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2625 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2626 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2627 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2628 files are treated identically.
2629 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2630 * Minor man page fixes.
2631 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2632 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2633 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2637 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2640 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2641 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2642 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2643 use -X multiple times, too.
2644 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2645 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2649 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2652 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2653 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2657 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2660 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2664 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2667 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2668 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2669 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2670 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2671 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2672 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2673 shape if you're starting a new package.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2677 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2680 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2684 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2687 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2688 because of missing symlinks.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2692 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2698 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2701 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2702 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2703 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2704 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2705 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2707 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2708 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2712 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2714 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2715 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2716 to be changed after the fact :-)
2717 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2721 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2724 no version string after the -V.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2728 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2730 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2731 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2736 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2739 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2743 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2746 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2747 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2748 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2749 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2750 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2751 I always welcome corrections!
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2755 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2761 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2764 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2765 * Documented this new switch.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2769 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2772 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2773 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2774 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2775 no packages use the old behavior.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2779 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2782 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2783 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2787 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2790 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2794 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2800 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2803 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2807 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2810 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2811 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2812 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2816 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2822 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2825 into the source package by accident.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2829 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2832 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2833 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2834 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2835 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2836 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2837 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2842 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2846 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2847 inspired to implement some of it.
2848 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2852 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2855 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2859 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2862 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2863 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2867 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2870 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2871 have done.) (#17598)
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2875 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2881 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2887 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2890 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2894 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2897 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2898 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2902 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2905 argument processor in perl.
2906 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2907 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2908 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2909 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2913 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2916 type directories. (#16933)
2917 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2918 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2919 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2920 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2921 are supported. (#16935)
2922 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2927 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2930 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2934 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2938 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2939 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2940 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2941 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2942 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2943 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2947 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2950 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2951 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2953 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2954 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2955 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2956 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2957 a given package, or -i or -a.
2958 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2959 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2960 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2961 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2962 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2963 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2964 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2965 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2966 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2968 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2969 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2970 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2974 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2977 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2978 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2983 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2986 does not have a section.
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2990 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2993 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2994 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2995 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2999 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Fixed typo #16215.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3005 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3008 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3009 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3010 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3011 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3012 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3017 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3020 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3021 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3022 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3027 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3033 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3039 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3042 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3043 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3044 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3045 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3046 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3047 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3051 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3057 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3060 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3064 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3067 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3068 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3069 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3073 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3076 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3080 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3086 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3089 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3093 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3096 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3100 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3106 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3109 postinst, postrm, etc.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3113 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3119 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3122 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3123 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3124 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3125 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3126 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3130 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3133 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3134 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3138 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3141 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3145 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3148 installing package files into.
3149 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3154 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3158 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3162 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3168 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3171 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3175 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3178 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3179 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3180 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3181 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3185 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3187 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3188 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3189 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3190 multiple binary packages.
3191 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3192 should rebuild them with this version.
3193 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3197 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3200 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3204 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3207 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3211 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3214 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3215 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3216 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3217 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3218 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3219 debian/README.debian.
3220 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3221 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3222 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3223 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3224 in a few situations.)
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3228 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3234 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3240 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3243 * Fixed several man pages.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3247 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3250 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3251 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3255 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3258 is ready for general use.
3259 * Added man pages for all commands.
3260 * Multiple binary package support.
3261 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3262 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3263 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3265 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3266 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3267 auto-installed as parameters.
3268 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3270 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3273 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3274 the package build directory it is to act on.
3275 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3276 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3277 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3281 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3283 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3284 ready to replace debstd.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400