1 debhelper (4.2.13) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
4 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
5 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
6 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
7 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
8 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
9 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
11 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
12 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
13 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
14 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
15 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
16 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
17 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
18 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
19 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
20 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
21 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
22 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
23 in the others, and added a few new tests.
24 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
25 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
29 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
36 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
39 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
43 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
46 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
50 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
53 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
57 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
60 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
64 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
70 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
76 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
78 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
82 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
85 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
86 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
87 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
91 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
94 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
98 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
101 but occasionally right and necessary.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
105 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
108 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
109 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
110 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
111 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
112 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937a
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
116 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
118 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
119 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
121 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
122 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
123 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
124 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
125 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
126 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
127 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
128 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
129 postinst scripts for udebs.
130 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
134 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
137 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
139 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
140 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
144 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
150 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
157 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
164 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
167 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
171 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
174 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
178 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
180 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
181 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
184 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
185 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
189 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
195 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
198 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
202 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
205 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
206 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
207 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
209 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
211 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
212 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
213 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
217 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
220 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
225 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
228 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
229 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
230 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
235 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
241 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
247 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
250 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
251 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
252 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
253 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
254 associated -dbg packages.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
258 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
261 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
265 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
268 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
272 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
275 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
279 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
281 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
282 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
287 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Typo. Closes: #207999
290 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
294 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
297 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
302 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
305 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
309 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
313 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
314 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
315 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
316 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
317 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
318 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
319 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
320 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
321 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
322 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
326 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
329 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
334 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
336 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
337 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
338 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
342 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
345 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
346 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
351 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
354 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
358 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
361 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
365 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
368 out section number. Closes: #204731
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
372 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
379 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
381 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
385 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
391 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Typo, Closes: #203907
394 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
395 removal. Closes: #204286
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
399 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
402 renaming. Closes: #203548
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
406 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
409 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
410 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
414 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
420 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
426 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
432 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
435 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
436 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
437 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
441 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
444 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
445 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
449 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
455 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
462 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
465 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
470 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
473 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
477 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
480 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
482 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
483 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
487 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
489 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
490 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
495 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
498 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
502 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
508 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
510 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
514 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
517 it break hard links (see #188663).
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
521 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
524 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
528 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
534 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
538 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
539 debconf-mergetemplates
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
543 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
546 pod2man. Closes: #184013
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
550 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
553 * Typo, Closes: #183267
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
557 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
560 * Update debhelper(1).
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
564 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
566 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
567 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
568 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
569 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
570 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
571 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
575 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
578 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
579 the shell. Closes: #178524
580 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
584 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
587 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
591 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
593 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
594 undocumented.7 links anymore.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
598 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
600 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
601 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
602 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
603 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
604 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
609 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
612 files from installation.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
616 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
619 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
620 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
624 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
627 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
631 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
634 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
638 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
644 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
650 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
654 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
655 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
657 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
661 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
664 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
665 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
666 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
667 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
671 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
673 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
674 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
678 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
681 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
682 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
686 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
690 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
695 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
701 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
705 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
706 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
707 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
712 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
715 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
716 practice. Closes: #163303
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
720 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
726 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
733 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
735 * The "reverse hangover" release.
736 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
738 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
739 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
740 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
741 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
742 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
746 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
749 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
754 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
760 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
762 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
767 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
770 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
775 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
777 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
781 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
787 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
793 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
800 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
803 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
804 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
805 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
806 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
811 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Typo, Closes: #155323
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
817 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
824 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
827 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
828 * Removed dh_installxaw.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
832 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
835 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
836 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
837 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
838 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
839 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
843 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
846 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
848 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
853 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
855 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
856 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
860 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
863 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
864 right thing. Closes: #150644
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
868 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
875 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
877 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
882 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
885 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
886 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
891 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
897 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
900 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
904 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
907 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
908 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
913 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
916 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
920 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
926 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
929 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
930 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
934 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
940 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Removing perl warning message.
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
946 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
949 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
950 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
951 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
952 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
953 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
954 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
955 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
956 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
960 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
966 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
973 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
976 debconf-mergetemplate.
977 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
978 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
982 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
985 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
986 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
987 dh_install, which ...
988 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
989 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
990 mess, as it uses debian/install.
991 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
992 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
993 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
994 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
995 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
996 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
997 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
998 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
999 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1000 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1001 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1002 other minor changes.
1003 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1004 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1005 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1006 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1007 course there's -X ..)
1008 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1009 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1010 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1012 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1013 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1014 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1015 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1016 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1021 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1027 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1030 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1034 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1040 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1046 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1052 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1058 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1061 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1062 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1063 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1064 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1066 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1067 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1071 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1077 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1080 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1084 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1087 upset. Closes: #131322
1089 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1091 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1094 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1095 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1096 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1097 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1098 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1099 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1100 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1101 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1102 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1103 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1104 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1105 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1106 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1107 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1108 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1110 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1114 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1117 - Better indenting of generated code.
1118 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1122 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1126 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1127 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1128 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1129 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1130 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1131 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1132 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1136 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1139 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1143 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1146 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1147 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1148 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1149 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1150 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1151 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1152 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1153 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1154 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1155 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1156 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1157 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1158 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1159 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1160 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1165 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1171 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1174 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1175 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1179 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1182 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1183 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1187 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1193 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1196 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1197 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1198 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1199 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1200 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1205 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1211 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1214 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1218 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1221 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1226 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1232 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1235 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1239 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1245 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1249 Also some indentation fixes.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1253 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1256 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1257 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1258 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1259 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1260 Closes: #106514, #85520
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1264 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1270 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1276 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1282 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1288 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1294 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1297 change it in debhelper v4..
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1301 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1307 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1310 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1314 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1317 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1321 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1327 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1330 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1331 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1332 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1333 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1334 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1335 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1336 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1337 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1338 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1339 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1340 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1341 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1345 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1348 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1352 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1359 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1362 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1363 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1364 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1365 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1366 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1367 program those options go to. So, for example,
1368 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1369 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1370 something complex. Closes: #89311
1371 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1375 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1378 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1379 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1380 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1384 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1387 through loop. Closes: #98598
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1391 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Missing semi-colon.
1394 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1395 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1399 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1402 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1403 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1404 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1408 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1411 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1412 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1416 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1419 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1423 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1426 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1427 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1431 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1434 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1435 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1436 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1440 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1443 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1444 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1445 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1449 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1452 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1456 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1462 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1468 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1474 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1480 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1483 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1487 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1490 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1491 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1492 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1493 followed. Closes: #85483
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1497 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1499 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1500 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1501 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1505 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1508 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1509 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1510 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1511 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1512 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1513 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1514 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1515 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1516 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1517 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1518 Closes: #88464, #77743
1519 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1520 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1521 us to deal with that gracefully.
1522 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1524 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1525 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1526 a while, Closes: #51225
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1530 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1536 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1539 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1543 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1547 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1552 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1555 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1556 don't make packlist files.
1557 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1558 debhelper coding standards.
1559 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1560 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1564 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1567 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1571 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1574 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1575 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1576 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1577 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1578 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1579 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1580 but is mildly deprecated.
1581 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1582 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1583 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1584 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1585 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1586 switching to statoverrides..
1587 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1588 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1589 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1590 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1591 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1592 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1594 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1595 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1596 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1597 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1598 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1599 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1600 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1601 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1602 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1604 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1605 variable names, pod man pages).
1606 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1607 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1608 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1609 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1610 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1611 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1612 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1616 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1622 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1629 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1632 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1636 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1638 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1639 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1640 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1644 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1646 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1647 they were previously ignored.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1651 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1653 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1654 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1658 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1660 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1661 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1662 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1666 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1668 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1672 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1674 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1675 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1679 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1681 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1682 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1683 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1684 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1685 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1686 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1687 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1688 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1689 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1690 it is an obsolete program.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1694 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1696 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1700 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1704 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1706 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1710 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1712 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1714 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1716 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1720 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1726 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * typo: Closes, #78567
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1732 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1738 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1744 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1747 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1748 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1749 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1750 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1751 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1755 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1758 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1763 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1766 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1767 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1768 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1769 backwards-compatability.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1773 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1776 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1777 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1778 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1779 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1780 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1781 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1783 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1784 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1785 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1787 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1789 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1790 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1791 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1792 should now be raised to severity important..
1793 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1794 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1798 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1801 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1806 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1812 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1818 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1824 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1831 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1834 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1835 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1836 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1837 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1841 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1847 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1850 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1851 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1852 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1853 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1854 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1855 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1860 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1863 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1867 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1873 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1876 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1881 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1884 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1885 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1886 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1887 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1891 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1895 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1898 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1901 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1902 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1905 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1907 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1908 the TODO entry about it.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1912 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1919 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1922 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1923 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1927 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1930 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1931 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1932 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1933 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1937 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1943 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1950 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1953 (this appears to be logal).
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1957 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1960 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1961 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1962 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1963 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1967 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1973 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1976 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1977 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1978 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1979 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1983 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1989 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1992 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1996 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2003 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2006 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2007 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2008 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2013 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2020 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2026 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2029 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2030 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2031 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2032 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2033 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2034 notice until v2 is complete.
2035 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2036 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2037 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2038 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2039 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2040 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2042 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2043 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2044 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2045 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2049 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2055 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2062 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2065 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2069 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2076 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2079 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2080 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2081 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2082 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2087 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2090 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2091 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2092 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2097 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2100 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2101 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2105 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2108 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2112 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2115 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2119 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2126 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2129 depend on the build and install targets.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2133 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2136 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2140 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2147 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2153 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2159 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2162 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2163 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2164 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2165 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2166 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2167 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2169 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2170 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2171 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2172 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2173 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2174 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2175 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2179 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2185 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2191 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2194 right place. Closes: #55065
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2198 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2205 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2208 * Copyright date updates.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2212 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2215 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2220 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2226 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2233 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2239 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2245 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2251 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2254 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2255 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2256 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2257 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2258 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2259 bits until all files have been registered.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2263 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_installmanpages:
2266 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2267 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2268 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2269 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2270 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2271 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2272 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2273 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2274 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2275 otherwise change the result at all.
2277 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2278 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2279 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2280 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2281 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2286 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2292 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2295 act on files that don't exist.
2296 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2297 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2298 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2300 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2301 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2302 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2303 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2307 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2313 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2319 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2322 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2326 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2329 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2331 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2332 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2333 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2337 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2340 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2341 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2342 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2343 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2344 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2345 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2346 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2348 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2350 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2354 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2361 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2367 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2373 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2376 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2380 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2386 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2392 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2395 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2396 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2397 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2398 I made some changes, though:
2399 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2400 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2401 that is a clear violation of policy.
2402 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2403 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2404 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2405 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2406 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2407 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2408 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2409 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2410 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2412 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2416 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2422 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2425 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2429 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2432 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2433 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2438 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2444 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2451 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2454 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2455 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2456 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2457 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2458 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2459 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2460 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2464 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2470 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2474 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2475 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2479 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2485 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2488 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2492 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2495 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2496 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2500 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2502 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2507 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2511 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2515 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2518 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2519 for the dependancies to be generated.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2523 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2526 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2530 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2533 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2534 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2535 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2540 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2543 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2544 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2548 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2554 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2560 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2563 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2567 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2573 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2576 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2577 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2578 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2579 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2580 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2581 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2582 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2583 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2584 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2585 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2586 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2587 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2591 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2594 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2595 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2597 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2598 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2599 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2600 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2601 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2602 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2604 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2605 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2609 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2612 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2616 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2623 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2626 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2631 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2634 for building debhelper.
2635 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2639 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2646 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2649 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2653 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2656 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2657 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2658 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2659 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2660 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2661 it's always available.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2665 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2668 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2669 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2670 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2674 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2677 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2678 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2682 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2688 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2691 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2695 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2701 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2704 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2705 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2706 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2710 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2713 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2718 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2721 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2722 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2724 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2725 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2729 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2735 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2741 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2744 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2748 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2751 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2752 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2754 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2758 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2761 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2762 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2763 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2767 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2770 things if CDPATH is set.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2774 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2780 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2783 seems to make sense for the transition.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2787 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2790 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2795 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2798 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2799 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2803 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2806 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2810 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2813 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2814 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2815 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2816 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2820 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2826 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2829 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2830 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2831 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2832 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2833 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2834 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2835 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2836 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2837 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2838 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2843 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2846 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2847 * README: mention doc/v2
2848 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2849 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2853 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2855 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2856 be using this script RSN.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2860 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2863 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2864 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2865 more than 1 init script.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2869 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2872 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2876 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Changed perl version detection.
2879 * Changed call to find.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2883 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2886 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2888 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2893 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * Really include dh_installpam.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2899 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2902 * Wrote man page for same.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2906 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2909 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2910 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2915 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2922 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2925 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2926 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2927 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2928 x bit was being set!
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2932 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2935 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2936 well. (Closes: 38900)
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2940 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2943 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2944 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2948 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2954 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2961 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2967 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2970 help from Julian Gilbey.
2971 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2972 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2973 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2974 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2975 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2976 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2977 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2982 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2988 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2995 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3001 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3007 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3010 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3014 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3017 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3021 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3024 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3028 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3034 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3037 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3041 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3047 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3053 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3056 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3057 may be deleted. (#35845)
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3061 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Various man page enhancements.
3064 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3069 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3072 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3073 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3077 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3080 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3081 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3082 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3084 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3085 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3090 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3096 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Another very minor typo fix.
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3102 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * Very minor typo fix.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3108 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3111 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3112 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3116 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3122 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3125 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3126 variables properly (#34850).
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3130 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3136 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3139 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3140 (automatically generated by build process).
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3144 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3146 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3150 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3153 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3154 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3156 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3160 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3163 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3167 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * README: minor typo fix.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3173 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3176 leave it at that. :-)
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3180 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3186 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3192 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3195 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3196 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3197 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3201 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3204 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3208 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3211 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3215 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3218 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3219 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3220 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3221 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3225 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3228 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3229 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3230 Craig Small for spotting this.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3234 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3237 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3238 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3242 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3248 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3251 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3255 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3257 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3258 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3259 working on the last version of debhelper.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3263 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3266 being made. (#23255)
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3270 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3276 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3279 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3283 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3286 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3287 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3288 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3289 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3293 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3296 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3297 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3298 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3299 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3301 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3302 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3304 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3309 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3315 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3321 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3324 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3325 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3326 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3327 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3328 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3329 suidregister actually supports it.
3330 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3331 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3335 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3342 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3345 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3346 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3347 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3348 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3349 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3350 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3351 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3355 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3357 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3358 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3362 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3365 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3366 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3367 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3368 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3372 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3375 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3377 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3378 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3379 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3380 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3381 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3382 effect, either. (#30118)
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3386 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3392 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3395 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3396 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3400 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3406 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3409 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3410 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3411 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3412 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3416 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3419 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3420 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3424 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3430 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3433 packages, painlessly.
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3437 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3443 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3449 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3455 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * The perl conversion is complete.
3459 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3461 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3462 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3463 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3468 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3471 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3472 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3473 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3477 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3480 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3482 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3484 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3485 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3489 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3492 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3493 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3497 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3503 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3506 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3507 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3508 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3509 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3510 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3514 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3517 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3518 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3519 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3520 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3524 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3527 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3531 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3534 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3535 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3536 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3537 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3538 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3539 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3540 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3541 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3545 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3551 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3554 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3555 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3556 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3561 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3564 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3568 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3571 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3575 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3578 sections of shared libraries.
3579 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3580 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3581 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3582 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3583 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3584 things you don't want them to.
3585 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3586 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3590 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3593 shared libraries. (#26414)
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3597 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3599 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3600 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3601 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3602 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3606 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3610 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3612 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3613 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3614 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3615 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3616 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3620 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3623 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3627 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3630 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3631 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3636 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3639 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3643 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3646 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3647 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3648 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3649 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3650 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3652 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3653 remove debian/files properly.
3654 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3655 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3656 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3657 * Removed bogus menu file.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3661 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3664 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3668 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3671 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3672 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3673 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3674 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3675 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3676 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3680 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3683 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3684 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3685 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3686 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3690 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3697 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3700 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3701 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3703 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3704 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3705 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3706 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3707 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3708 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3712 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3715 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3716 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3717 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3718 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3719 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3720 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3721 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3722 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3723 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3724 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3725 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3726 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3727 passed any switches.
3728 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3732 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3735 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3736 at all for a long while.
3737 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3738 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3739 large chunks in the process.
3740 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3741 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3742 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3747 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3749 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3750 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3752 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3757 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3760 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3761 that don't always have the same files in them.
3762 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3763 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3764 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3768 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3772 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3773 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3774 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3775 updating 27 man pages.
3776 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3777 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3778 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3779 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3780 programs act on. (#25247)
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3784 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3788 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3789 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3790 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3791 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3792 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3793 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3798 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3805 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3812 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3815 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3819 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3825 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3828 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3829 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3830 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3831 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3832 package by accident.
3833 * Is version 1.0 next?
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3837 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3840 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3841 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3845 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3848 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3849 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3850 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3851 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3852 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3854 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3859 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3862 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3863 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3867 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3870 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3874 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3877 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3878 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3883 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3889 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3892 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3893 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3898 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3904 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3907 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3908 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3909 past week. Thanks, guys!
3911 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3912 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3913 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3914 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3915 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3916 would do in the same situation.
3917 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3918 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3920 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3922 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3923 permissions changed.
3924 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3925 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3926 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3927 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3928 files are treated identically.
3929 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3930 * Minor man page fixes.
3931 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3932 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3933 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3937 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3940 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3941 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3942 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3943 use -X multiple times, too.
3944 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3945 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3949 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3952 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3953 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3957 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3960 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3964 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3967 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3968 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3969 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3970 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3971 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3972 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3973 shape if you're starting a new package.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3977 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3980 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3984 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3987 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3988 because of missing symlinks.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3992 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3998 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4001 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4002 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4003 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4004 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4005 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4007 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4008 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4012 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4014 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4015 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4016 to be changed after the fact :-)
4017 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4021 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4023 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4024 no version string after the -V.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4028 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4030 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4031 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4036 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4039 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4043 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4046 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4047 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4048 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4049 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4050 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4051 I always welcome corrections!
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4055 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4061 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4064 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4065 * Documented this new switch.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4069 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4072 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4073 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4074 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4075 no packages use the old behavior.
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4079 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4082 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4083 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4087 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4090 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4094 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4100 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4103 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4107 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4110 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4111 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4112 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4116 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4122 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4125 into the source package by accident.
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4129 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4132 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4133 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4134 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4135 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4136 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4137 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4142 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4146 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4147 inspired to implement some of it.
4148 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4152 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4155 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4159 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4162 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4163 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4167 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4170 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4171 have done.) (#17598)
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4175 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4181 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4187 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4190 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4194 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4197 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4198 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4202 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4205 argument processor in perl.
4206 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4207 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4208 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4209 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4213 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4216 type directories. (#16933)
4217 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4218 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4219 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4220 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4221 are supported. (#16935)
4222 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4227 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4230 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4234 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4238 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4239 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4240 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4241 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4242 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4243 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4247 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4250 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4251 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4253 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4254 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4255 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4256 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4257 a given package, or -i or -a.
4258 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4259 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4260 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4261 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4262 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4263 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4264 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4265 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4266 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4268 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4269 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4270 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4274 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4277 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4278 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4283 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4286 does not have a section.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4290 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4293 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4294 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4295 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4299 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * Fixed typo #16215.
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4305 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4308 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4309 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4310 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4311 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4312 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4317 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4320 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4321 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4322 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4327 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4333 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4339 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4342 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4343 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4344 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4345 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4346 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4347 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4351 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4357 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4360 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4364 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4367 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4368 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4369 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4373 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4376 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4380 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4386 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4389 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4393 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4396 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4400 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4406 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4409 postinst, postrm, etc.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4413 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4419 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4422 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4423 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4424 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4425 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4426 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4430 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4433 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4434 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4438 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4441 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4445 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4448 installing package files into.
4449 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4454 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4458 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4462 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4468 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4471 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4475 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4478 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4479 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4480 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4481 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4485 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4487 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4488 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4489 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4490 multiple binary packages.
4491 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4492 should rebuild them with this version.
4493 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4497 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4499 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4500 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4504 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4507 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4511 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4514 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4515 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4516 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4517 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4518 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4519 debian/README.debian.
4520 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4521 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4522 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4523 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4524 in a few situations.)
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4528 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4534 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4540 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4543 * Fixed several man pages.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4547 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4550 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4551 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4555 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4558 is ready for general use.
4559 * Added man pages for all commands.
4560 * Multiple binary package support.
4561 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4562 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4563 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4565 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4566 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4567 auto-installed as parameters.
4568 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4570 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4573 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4574 the package build directory it is to act on.
4575 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4576 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4577 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4581 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4583 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4584 ready to replace debstd.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400