1 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
5 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
6 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
7 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
12 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
14 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
15 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
16 practice. Closes: #163303
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
20 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
26 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
33 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
35 * The "reverse hangover" release.
36 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
38 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
39 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
40 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
41 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
42 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
46 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
49 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
54 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
60 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
67 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
70 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
75 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
81 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
87 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
93 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
100 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
103 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
104 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
105 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
106 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
111 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Typo, Closes: #155323
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
117 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
124 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
127 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
128 * Removed dh_installxaw.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
132 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
135 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
136 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
137 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
138 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
139 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
143 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
146 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
148 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
153 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
155 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
156 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
160 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
163 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
164 right thing. Closes: #150644
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
168 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
175 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
177 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
182 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
184 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
185 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
186 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
191 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
197 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
200 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
204 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
207 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
208 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
213 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
216 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
220 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
226 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
229 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
230 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
234 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
240 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Removing perl warning message.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
246 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
249 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
250 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
251 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
252 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
253 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
254 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
255 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
256 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
260 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
266 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
273 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
276 debconf-mergetemplate.
277 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
278 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
282 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
285 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
286 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
287 dh_install, which ...
288 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
289 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
290 mess, as it uses debian/install.
291 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
292 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
293 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
294 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
295 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
296 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
297 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
298 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
299 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
300 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
301 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
303 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
304 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
305 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
306 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
307 course there's -X ..)
308 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
309 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
310 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
312 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
313 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
314 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
315 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
316 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
321 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
327 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Typo, Closes: #139176
330 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
334 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
340 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
346 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
352 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
358 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
361 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
362 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
363 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
364 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
366 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
367 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
371 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
377 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Typo, Closes: #132454
380 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
384 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
387 upset. Closes: #131322
389 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
391 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
394 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
395 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
396 line, as well as in debian/rules.
397 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
398 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
399 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
400 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
401 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
402 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
403 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
404 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
405 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
406 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
407 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
408 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
410 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
414 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
417 - Better indenting of generated code.
418 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
422 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
426 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
427 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
428 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
429 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
430 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
431 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
432 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
436 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
439 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
443 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
446 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
447 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
448 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
449 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
450 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
451 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
452 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
453 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
454 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
455 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
456 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
457 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
458 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
459 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
460 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
465 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
471 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
474 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
475 * fixed dh_testdir man page
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
479 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Typo, Closes: #122679
482 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
483 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
487 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
489 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
493 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
496 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
497 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
498 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
499 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
500 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
505 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
507 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
511 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
514 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
518 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
521 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
526 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Typo, Closes: #114135
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
532 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
535 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
539 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
545 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
549 Also some indentation fixes.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
553 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
556 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
557 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
558 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
559 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
560 Closes: #106514, #85520
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
564 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Typo, Closes: #104405
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
570 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
576 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
578 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
582 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
588 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
594 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
596 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
597 change it in debhelper v4..
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
601 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
607 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
610 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
614 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
617 is not essential. Closes: #100430
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
621 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
627 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
630 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
631 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
632 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
633 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
634 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
635 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
636 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
637 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
638 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
639 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
640 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
641 prefixed with ".debhelper")
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
645 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
648 look just like shared libs, but are not.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
652 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
659 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
662 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
663 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
664 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
665 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
666 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
667 program those options go to. So, for example,
668 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
669 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
670 something complex. Closes: #89311
671 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
675 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
678 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
679 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
680 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
684 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
687 through loop. Closes: #98598
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
691 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Missing semi-colon.
694 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
695 this (dh_* should be called, really).
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
699 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
702 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
703 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
704 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
708 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
710 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
711 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
712 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
716 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
719 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
723 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
725 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
726 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
727 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
731 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
734 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
735 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
736 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
740 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
743 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
744 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
745 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
749 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
752 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
756 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
762 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Typo, Closes: #92407
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
768 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
774 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
780 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
782 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
783 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
787 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
790 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
791 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
792 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
793 followed. Closes: #85483
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
797 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
799 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
800 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
801 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
805 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
807 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
808 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
809 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
810 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
811 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
812 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
813 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
814 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
815 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
816 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
817 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
818 Closes: #88464, #77743
819 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
820 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
821 us to deal with that gracefully.
822 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
824 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
825 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
826 a while, Closes: #51225
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
830 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
836 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
839 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
843 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
847 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
852 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
855 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
856 don't make packlist files.
857 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
858 debhelper coding standards.
859 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
860 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
864 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
866 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
867 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
871 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
874 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
875 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
876 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
877 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
878 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
879 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
880 but is mildly deprecated.
881 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
882 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
883 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
884 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
885 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
886 switching to statoverrides..
887 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
888 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
889 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
890 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
891 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
892 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
894 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
895 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
896 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
897 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
898 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
899 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
900 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
901 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
902 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
904 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
905 variable names, pod man pages).
906 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
907 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
908 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
909 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
910 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
911 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
912 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
916 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
922 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
929 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
932 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
936 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
938 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
939 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
940 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
944 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
946 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
947 they were previously ignored.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
951 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
953 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
954 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
958 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
960 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
961 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
962 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
966 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
968 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
972 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
974 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
975 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
979 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
981 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
982 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
983 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
984 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
985 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
986 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
987 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
988 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
989 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
990 it is an obsolete program.
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
994 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
996 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1000 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1004 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1006 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1010 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1012 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1014 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1016 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1020 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1026 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * typo: Closes, #78567
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1032 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1038 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1044 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1047 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1048 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1049 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1050 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1051 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1055 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1058 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1063 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1066 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1067 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1068 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1069 backwards-compatability.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1073 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1076 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1077 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1078 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1079 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1080 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1081 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1083 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1084 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1085 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1087 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1089 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1090 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1091 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1092 should now be raised to severity important..
1093 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1094 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1098 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1101 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1106 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1112 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1118 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1124 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1131 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1134 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1135 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1136 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1137 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1141 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1147 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1150 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1151 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1152 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1153 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1154 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1155 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1160 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1163 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1167 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1173 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1176 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1181 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1184 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1185 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1186 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1187 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1191 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1195 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1198 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1201 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1202 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1205 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1207 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1208 the TODO entry about it.
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1212 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1219 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1222 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1223 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1227 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1230 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1231 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1232 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1233 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1237 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1243 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1250 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1253 (this appears to be logal).
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1257 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1260 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1261 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1262 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1263 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1273 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1276 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1277 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1278 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1279 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1283 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1289 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1292 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1296 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1303 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1306 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1307 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1308 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1313 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1320 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1326 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1329 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1330 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1331 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1332 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1333 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1334 notice until v2 is complete.
1335 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1336 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1337 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1338 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1339 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1340 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1342 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1343 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1344 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1345 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1349 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1355 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1362 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1365 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1369 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1376 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1379 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1380 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1381 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1382 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1387 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1390 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1391 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1392 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1397 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1400 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1401 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1405 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1408 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1412 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1415 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1419 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1426 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1429 depend on the build and install targets.
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1433 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1436 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1440 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1447 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1453 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1459 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1462 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1463 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1464 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1465 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1466 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1467 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1469 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1470 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1471 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1472 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1473 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1474 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1475 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1479 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1485 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1491 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1494 right place. Closes: #55065
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1498 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1505 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1508 * Copyright date updates.
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1512 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1515 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1520 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1526 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1533 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1539 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1545 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1551 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1554 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1555 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1556 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1557 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1558 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1559 bits until all files have been registered.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1563 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_installmanpages:
1566 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1567 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1568 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1569 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1570 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1571 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1572 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1573 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1574 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1575 otherwise change the result at all.
1577 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1578 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1579 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1580 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1581 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1586 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1592 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1595 act on files that don't exist.
1596 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1597 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1598 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1600 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1601 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1602 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1603 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1607 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1613 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1619 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1622 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1626 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1629 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1631 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1632 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1633 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1637 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1640 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1641 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1642 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1643 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1644 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1645 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1646 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1648 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1650 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1654 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1661 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1667 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1673 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1676 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1680 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1686 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1692 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1695 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1696 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1697 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1698 I made some changes, though:
1699 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1700 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1701 that is a clear violation of policy.
1702 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1703 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1704 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1705 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1706 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1707 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1708 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1709 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1710 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1712 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1716 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1722 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1725 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1729 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1732 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1733 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1738 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1744 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1751 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1754 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1755 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1756 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1757 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1758 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1759 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1760 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1764 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1770 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1774 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1775 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1779 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1785 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1788 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1792 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1795 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1796 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1800 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1802 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1807 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1811 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1818 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1819 for the dependancies to be generated.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1823 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1826 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1830 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1833 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1834 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1835 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1840 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1843 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1844 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1848 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1854 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1860 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1863 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1867 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1873 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1876 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1877 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1878 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1879 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1880 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1881 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1882 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1883 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1884 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1885 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1886 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1887 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1891 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1894 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1895 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1897 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1898 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1899 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1900 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1901 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1902 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1904 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1905 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1909 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1912 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1916 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1923 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1926 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1931 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1934 for building debhelper.
1935 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1939 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1946 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1949 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1953 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1956 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1957 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1958 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1959 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1960 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1961 it's always available.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1965 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1968 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1969 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1970 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1974 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1977 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1978 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1982 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1988 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1991 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1995 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2001 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2004 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2005 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2006 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2010 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2013 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2018 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2021 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2022 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2024 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2025 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2029 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2035 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2041 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2044 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2048 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2051 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2052 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2054 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2058 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2061 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2062 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2063 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2067 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2070 things if CDPATH is set.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2074 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2080 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2083 seems to make sense for the transition.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2087 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2090 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2095 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2098 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2099 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2103 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2106 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2110 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2113 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2114 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2115 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2116 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2120 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2126 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2129 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2130 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2131 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2132 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2133 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2134 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2135 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2136 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2137 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2138 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2143 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2146 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2147 * README: mention doc/v2
2148 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2149 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2153 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2155 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2156 be using this script RSN.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2160 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2163 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2164 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2165 more than 1 init script.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2169 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2172 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2176 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Changed perl version detection.
2179 * Changed call to find.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2183 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2186 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2188 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2193 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Really include dh_installpam.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2199 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2202 * Wrote man page for same.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2206 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2209 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2210 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2215 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2222 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2225 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2226 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2227 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2228 x bit was being set!
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2232 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2235 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2236 well. (Closes: 38900)
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2240 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2243 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2244 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2248 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2254 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2261 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2267 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2270 help from Julian Gilbey.
2271 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2272 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2273 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2274 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2275 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2276 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2277 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2282 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2288 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2295 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2301 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2307 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2310 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2314 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2317 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2321 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2324 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2328 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2334 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2337 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2341 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2347 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2353 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2356 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2357 may be deleted. (#35845)
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2361 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Various man page enhancements.
2364 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2369 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2372 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2373 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2377 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2380 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2381 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2382 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2384 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2385 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2390 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2396 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Another very minor typo fix.
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2402 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Very minor typo fix.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2408 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2411 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2412 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2416 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2422 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2425 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2426 variables properly (#34850).
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2430 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2436 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2439 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2440 (automatically generated by build process).
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2444 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2446 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2450 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2453 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2454 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2456 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2460 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2463 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2467 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * README: minor typo fix.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2473 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2476 leave it at that. :-)
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2480 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2486 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2492 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2495 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2496 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2497 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2501 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2504 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2508 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2511 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2515 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2518 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2519 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2520 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2521 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2525 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2528 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2529 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2530 Craig Small for spotting this.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2534 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2537 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2538 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2542 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2548 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2551 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2555 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2557 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2558 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2559 working on the last version of debhelper.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2563 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2566 being made. (#23255)
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2570 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2576 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2579 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2583 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2586 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2587 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2588 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2589 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2593 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2596 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2597 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2598 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2599 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2601 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2602 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2604 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2609 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2615 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2621 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2624 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2625 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2626 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2627 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2628 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2629 suidregister actually supports it.
2630 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2631 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2635 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2642 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2645 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2646 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2647 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2648 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2649 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2650 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2651 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2655 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2657 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2658 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2662 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2665 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2666 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2667 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2668 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2672 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2675 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2677 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2678 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2679 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2680 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2681 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2682 effect, either. (#30118)
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2686 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2692 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2695 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2696 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2700 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2706 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2709 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2710 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2711 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2712 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2716 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2719 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2720 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2724 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2730 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2733 packages, painlessly.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2737 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2743 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2749 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2755 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * The perl conversion is complete.
2759 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2761 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2762 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2763 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2768 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2771 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2772 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2773 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2777 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2780 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2782 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2784 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2785 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2789 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2792 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2793 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2797 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2803 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2806 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2807 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2808 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2809 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2810 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2814 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2817 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2818 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2819 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2820 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2824 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2827 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2831 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2834 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2835 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2836 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2837 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2838 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2839 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2840 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2841 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2845 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2851 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2854 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2855 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2856 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2861 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2864 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2868 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2871 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2875 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2878 sections of shared libraries.
2879 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2880 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2881 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2882 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2883 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2884 things you don't want them to.
2885 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2886 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2890 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2893 shared libraries. (#26414)
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2897 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2899 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2900 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2901 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2902 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2906 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2910 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2912 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2913 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2914 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2915 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2916 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2920 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2923 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2927 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2930 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2931 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2936 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2939 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2943 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2946 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2947 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2948 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2949 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2950 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2952 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2953 remove debian/files properly.
2954 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2955 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2956 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2957 * Removed bogus menu file.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2961 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2964 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2968 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2971 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2972 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2973 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2974 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2975 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2976 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2980 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2983 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2984 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2985 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2986 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2990 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2997 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3000 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3001 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3003 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3004 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3005 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3006 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3007 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3008 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3012 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3015 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3016 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3017 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3018 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3019 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3020 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3021 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3022 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3023 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3024 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3025 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3026 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3027 passed any switches.
3028 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3032 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3035 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3036 at all for a long while.
3037 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3038 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3039 large chunks in the process.
3040 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3041 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3042 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3047 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3050 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3052 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3057 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3060 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3061 that don't always have the same files in them.
3062 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3063 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3064 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3068 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3072 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3073 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3074 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3075 updating 27 man pages.
3076 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3077 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3078 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3079 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3080 programs act on. (#25247)
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3084 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3088 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3089 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3090 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3091 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3092 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3093 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3098 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3105 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3112 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3115 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3119 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3125 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3128 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3129 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3130 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3131 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3132 package by accident.
3133 * Is version 1.0 next?
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3137 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3140 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3141 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3145 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3148 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3149 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3150 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3151 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3152 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3154 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3159 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3162 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3163 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3167 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3170 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3174 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3177 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3178 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3183 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3189 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3192 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3193 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3198 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3204 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3207 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3208 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3209 past week. Thanks, guys!
3211 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3212 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3213 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3214 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3215 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3216 would do in the same situation.
3217 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3218 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3220 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3222 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3223 permissions changed.
3224 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3225 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3226 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3227 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3228 files are treated identically.
3229 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3230 * Minor man page fixes.
3231 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3232 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3233 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3237 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3240 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3241 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3242 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3243 use -X multiple times, too.
3244 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3245 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3249 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3252 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3253 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3257 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3260 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3264 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3267 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3268 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3269 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3270 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3271 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3272 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3273 shape if you're starting a new package.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3277 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3280 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3284 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3287 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3288 because of missing symlinks.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3292 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3298 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3300 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3301 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3302 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3303 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3304 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3305 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3307 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3308 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3312 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3314 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3315 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3316 to be changed after the fact :-)
3317 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3321 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3324 no version string after the -V.
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3328 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3330 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3331 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3336 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3339 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3343 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3346 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3347 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3348 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3349 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3350 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3351 I always welcome corrections!
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3355 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3361 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3364 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3365 * Documented this new switch.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3369 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3372 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3373 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3374 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3375 no packages use the old behavior.
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3379 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3382 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3383 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3387 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3390 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3394 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3400 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3403 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3407 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3410 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3411 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3412 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3416 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3422 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3425 into the source package by accident.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3429 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3432 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3433 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3434 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3435 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3436 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3437 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3442 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3446 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3447 inspired to implement some of it.
3448 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3452 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3455 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3459 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3462 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3463 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3467 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3470 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3471 have done.) (#17598)
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3475 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3481 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3487 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3490 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3494 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3497 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3498 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3502 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3505 argument processor in perl.
3506 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3507 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3508 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3509 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3513 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3516 type directories. (#16933)
3517 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3518 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3519 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3520 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3521 are supported. (#16935)
3522 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3527 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3530 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3534 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3538 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3539 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3540 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3541 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3542 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3543 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3547 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3550 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3551 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3553 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3554 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3555 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3556 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3557 a given package, or -i or -a.
3558 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3559 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3560 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3561 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3562 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3563 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3564 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3565 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3566 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3568 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3569 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3570 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3574 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3577 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3578 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3583 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3586 does not have a section.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3590 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3593 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3594 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3595 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3599 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Fixed typo #16215.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3605 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3608 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3609 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3610 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3611 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3612 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3617 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3620 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3621 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3622 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3627 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3633 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3639 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3642 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3643 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3644 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3645 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3646 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3647 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3651 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3657 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3660 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3664 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3667 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3668 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3669 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3673 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3676 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3680 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3686 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3689 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3693 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3696 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3700 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3706 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3709 postinst, postrm, etc.
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3713 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3719 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3722 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3723 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3724 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3725 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3726 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3730 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3733 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3734 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3738 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3741 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3745 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3748 installing package files into.
3749 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3754 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3758 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3762 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3768 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3771 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3775 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3778 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3779 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3780 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3781 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3785 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3787 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3788 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3789 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3790 multiple binary packages.
3791 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3792 should rebuild them with this version.
3793 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3797 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3800 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3804 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3807 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3811 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3814 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3815 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3816 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3817 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3818 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3819 debian/README.debian.
3820 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3821 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3822 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3823 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3824 in a few situations.)
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3828 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3834 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3840 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3843 * Fixed several man pages.
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3847 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3850 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3851 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3855 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3858 is ready for general use.
3859 * Added man pages for all commands.
3860 * Multiple binary package support.
3861 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3862 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3863 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3865 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3866 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3867 auto-installed as parameters.
3868 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3870 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3873 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3874 the package build directory it is to act on.
3875 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3876 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3877 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3881 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3883 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3884 ready to replace debstd.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400