1 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Typo, Closes: #104405
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
7 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
13 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
15 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
19 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
21 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
25 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
31 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
33 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
34 change it in debhelper v4..
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
38 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
44 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
47 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
51 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
54 is not essential. Closes: #100430
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
58 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
64 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
67 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
68 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
69 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
70 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
71 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
72 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
73 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
74 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
75 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
76 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
77 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
78 prefixed with ".debhelper")
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
82 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
85 look just like shared libs, but are not.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
89 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
96 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
99 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
100 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
101 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
102 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
103 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
104 program those options go to. So, for example,
105 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
106 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
107 something complex. Closes: #89311
108 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
112 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
115 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
116 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
117 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
121 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
124 through loop. Closes: #98598
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
128 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Missing semi-colon.
131 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
132 this (dh_* should be called, really).
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
136 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
139 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
140 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
141 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
145 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
148 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
149 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
153 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
156 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
160 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
163 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
164 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
168 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
171 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
172 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
173 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
177 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
180 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
181 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
182 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
186 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
189 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
193 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
199 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
201 * Typo, Closes: #92407
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
205 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
211 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
217 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
220 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
224 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
227 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
228 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
229 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
230 followed. Closes: #85483
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
234 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
236 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
237 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
238 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
242 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
245 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
246 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
247 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
248 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
249 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
250 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
251 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
252 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
253 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
254 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
255 Closes: #88464, #77743
256 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
257 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
258 us to deal with that gracefully.
259 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
261 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
262 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
263 a while, Closes: #51225
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
267 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
273 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
276 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
280 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
282 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
284 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
289 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
292 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
293 don't make packlist files.
294 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
295 debhelper coding standards.
296 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
297 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
301 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
304 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
308 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
311 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
312 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
313 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
314 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
315 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
316 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
317 but is mildly deprecated.
318 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
319 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
320 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
321 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
322 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
323 switching to statoverrides..
324 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
325 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
326 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
327 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
328 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
329 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
331 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
332 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
333 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
334 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
335 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
336 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
337 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
338 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
339 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
341 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
342 variable names, pod man pages).
343 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
344 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
345 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
346 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
347 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
348 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
349 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
353 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
359 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
366 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
369 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
373 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
375 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
376 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
377 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
381 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
383 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
384 they were previously ignored.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
388 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
390 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
391 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
395 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
397 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
398 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
399 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
403 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
405 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
409 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
411 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
412 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
416 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
418 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
419 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
420 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
421 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
422 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
423 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
424 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
425 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
426 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
427 it is an obsolete program.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
431 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
433 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
437 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
441 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
443 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
447 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
449 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
451 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
453 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
457 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
463 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
465 * typo: Closes, #78567
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
469 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
475 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
481 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
483 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
484 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
485 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
486 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
487 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
488 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
492 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
495 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
500 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
503 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
504 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
505 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
506 backwards-compatability.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
510 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
512 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
513 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
514 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
515 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
516 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
517 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
518 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
520 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
521 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
522 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
524 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
526 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
527 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
528 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
529 should now be raised to severity important..
530 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
531 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
535 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
538 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
543 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Typo, Closes: #77441
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
549 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Completed the fix from the last version.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
555 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
561 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
563 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
568 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
571 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
572 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
573 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
574 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
578 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
580 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
584 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
587 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
588 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
589 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
590 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
591 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
592 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
597 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
600 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
604 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
610 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
613 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
618 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
621 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
622 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
623 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
624 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
628 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
632 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
635 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
638 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
639 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
642 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
644 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
645 the TODO entry about it.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
649 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
656 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
659 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
660 prevent that. Closes: #73052
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
664 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Typo, Closes: #72932
667 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
668 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
669 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
670 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
674 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
680 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
687 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
690 (this appears to be logal).
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
694 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
697 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
698 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
699 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
700 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
704 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
710 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
712 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
713 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
714 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
715 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
716 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
720 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
726 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
729 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
733 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
740 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
743 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
744 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
745 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
750 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
757 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
763 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
765 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
766 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
767 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
768 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
769 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
770 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
771 notice until v2 is complete.
772 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
773 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
774 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
775 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
776 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
777 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
779 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
780 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
781 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
782 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
786 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
792 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
799 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
801 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
802 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
806 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
813 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
816 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
817 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
818 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
819 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
824 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
827 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
828 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
829 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
834 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
837 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
838 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
842 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
845 just skip files that end in -\d+.
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
849 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
851 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
852 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
856 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
863 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
865 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
866 depend on the build and install targets.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
870 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
873 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
877 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
884 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
890 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
896 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
899 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
900 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
901 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
902 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
903 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
904 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
906 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
907 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
908 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
909 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
910 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
911 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
912 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
916 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
922 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
928 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
931 right place. Closes: #55065
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
935 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
942 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Make all examples rules files executable.
945 * Copyright date updates.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
949 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
952 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
957 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
963 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
970 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
976 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
982 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
988 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
991 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
992 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
993 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
994 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
995 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
996 bits until all files have been registered.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1000 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_installmanpages:
1003 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1004 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1005 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1006 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1007 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1008 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1009 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1010 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1011 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1012 otherwise change the result at all.
1014 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1015 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1016 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1017 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1018 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1023 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1029 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1032 act on files that don't exist.
1033 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1034 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1035 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1037 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1038 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1039 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1040 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1044 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1050 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1056 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1059 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1063 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1066 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1068 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1069 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1070 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1074 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1077 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1078 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1079 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1080 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1081 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1082 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1083 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1085 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1087 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1091 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1098 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1104 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1110 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1113 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1117 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1123 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1129 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1132 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1133 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1134 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1135 I made some changes, though:
1136 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1137 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1138 that is a clear violation of policy.
1139 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1140 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1141 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1142 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1143 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1144 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1145 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1146 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1147 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1149 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1153 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1162 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1166 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1169 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1170 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1175 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1181 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1188 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1191 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1192 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1193 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1194 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1195 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1196 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1197 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1201 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1207 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1211 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1212 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1222 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1225 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1229 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1232 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1233 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1237 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1239 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1244 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1248 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1255 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1256 for the dependancies to be generated.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1260 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1263 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1270 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1271 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1272 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1277 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1280 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1281 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1285 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1291 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1297 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1300 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1304 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1310 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1313 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1314 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1315 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1316 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1317 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1318 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1319 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1320 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1321 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1322 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1323 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1324 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1328 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1331 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1332 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1334 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1335 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1336 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1337 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1338 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1339 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1341 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1342 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1346 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1349 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1353 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1360 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1363 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1368 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1371 for building debhelper.
1372 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1376 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1383 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1386 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1390 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1393 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1394 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1395 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1396 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1397 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1398 it's always available.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1402 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1405 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1406 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1407 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1411 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1414 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1415 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1419 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1425 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1428 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1432 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1438 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1441 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1442 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1443 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1447 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1450 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1455 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1458 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1459 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1461 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1462 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1466 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1472 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1478 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1481 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1485 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1488 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1489 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1491 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1495 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1498 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1499 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1500 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1507 things if CDPATH is set.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1511 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1517 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1520 seems to make sense for the transition.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1524 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1527 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1532 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1535 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1536 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1540 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1543 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1547 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1550 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1551 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1552 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1553 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1557 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1563 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1566 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1567 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1568 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1569 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1570 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1571 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1572 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1573 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1574 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1575 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1580 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1583 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1584 * README: mention doc/v2
1585 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1586 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1590 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1592 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1593 be using this script RSN.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1597 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1600 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1601 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1602 more than 1 init script.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1606 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1609 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1613 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * Changed perl version detection.
1616 * Changed call to find.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1620 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1623 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1625 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1630 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Really include dh_installpam.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1636 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1639 * Wrote man page for same.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1643 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1646 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1647 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1652 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1659 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1662 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1663 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1664 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1665 x bit was being set!
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1669 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1672 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1673 well. (Closes: 38900)
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1677 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1680 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1681 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1685 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1691 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1698 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1704 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1707 help from Julian Gilbey.
1708 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1709 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1710 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1711 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1712 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1713 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1714 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1719 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1725 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1732 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1738 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1744 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1747 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1751 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1754 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1758 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1761 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1765 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1771 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1774 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1778 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1784 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1790 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1793 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1794 may be deleted. (#35845)
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1798 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Various man page enhancements.
1801 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1806 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1809 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1810 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1814 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1817 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1818 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1819 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1821 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1822 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1827 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1833 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Another very minor typo fix.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1839 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Very minor typo fix.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1845 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1848 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1849 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1853 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1859 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1862 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1863 variables properly (#34850).
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1867 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1873 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1876 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1877 (automatically generated by build process).
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1881 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1883 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1887 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1890 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1891 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1893 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1897 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1900 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1904 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * README: minor typo fix.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1910 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1913 leave it at that. :-)
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1917 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1923 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1929 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1932 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1933 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1934 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1938 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1941 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1945 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1948 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1952 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1955 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1956 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1957 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1958 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1962 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1965 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1966 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1967 Craig Small for spotting this.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1971 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1974 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1975 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1979 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1985 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1988 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1992 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1994 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1995 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1996 working on the last version of debhelper.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2000 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2003 being made. (#23255)
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2007 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2013 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2016 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2020 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2023 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2024 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2025 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2026 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2030 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2033 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2034 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2035 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2036 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2038 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2039 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2041 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2046 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2052 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2058 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2061 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2062 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2063 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2064 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2065 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2066 suidregister actually supports it.
2067 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2068 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2072 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2079 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2082 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2083 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2084 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2085 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2086 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2087 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2088 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2092 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2094 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2095 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2099 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2102 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2103 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2104 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2105 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2109 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2112 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2114 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2115 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2116 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2117 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2118 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2119 effect, either. (#30118)
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2123 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2129 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2132 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2133 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2137 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2143 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2146 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2147 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2148 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2149 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2153 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2156 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2157 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2161 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2167 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2170 packages, painlessly.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2174 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2180 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2186 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2192 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * The perl conversion is complete.
2196 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2198 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2199 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2200 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2205 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2208 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2209 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2210 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2214 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2217 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2219 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2221 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2222 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2226 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2229 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2230 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2234 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2240 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2243 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2244 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2245 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2246 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2247 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2251 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2254 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2255 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2256 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2257 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2261 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2264 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2268 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2271 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2272 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2273 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2274 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2275 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2276 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2277 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2278 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2282 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2288 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2291 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2292 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2293 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2298 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2301 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2305 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2308 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2312 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2315 sections of shared libraries.
2316 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2317 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2318 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2319 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2320 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2321 things you don't want them to.
2322 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2323 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2327 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2330 shared libraries. (#26414)
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2334 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2336 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2337 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2338 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2339 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2343 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2347 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2349 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2350 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2351 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2352 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2353 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2357 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2360 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2364 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2367 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2368 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2373 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2376 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2380 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2383 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2384 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2385 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2386 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2387 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2389 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2390 remove debian/files properly.
2391 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2392 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2393 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2394 * Removed bogus menu file.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2398 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2401 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2405 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2408 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2409 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2410 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2411 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2412 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2413 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2417 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2420 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2421 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2422 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2423 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2427 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2434 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2437 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2438 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2440 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2441 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2442 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2443 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2444 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2445 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2449 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2452 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2453 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2454 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2455 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2456 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2457 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2458 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2459 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2460 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2461 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2462 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2463 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2464 passed any switches.
2465 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2469 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2472 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2473 at all for a long while.
2474 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2475 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2476 large chunks in the process.
2477 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2478 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2479 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2484 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2487 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2489 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2494 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2497 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2498 that don't always have the same files in them.
2499 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2500 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2501 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2505 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2509 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2510 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2511 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2512 updating 27 man pages.
2513 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2514 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2515 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2516 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2517 programs act on. (#25247)
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2521 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2525 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2526 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2527 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2528 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2529 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2530 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2535 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2542 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2549 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2552 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2556 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2562 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2565 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2566 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2567 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2568 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2569 package by accident.
2570 * Is version 1.0 next?
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2574 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2577 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2578 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2582 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2585 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2586 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2587 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2588 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2589 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2591 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2596 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2599 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2600 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2604 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2607 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2611 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2614 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2615 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2620 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2626 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2629 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2630 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2635 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2641 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2644 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2645 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2646 past week. Thanks, guys!
2648 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2649 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2650 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2651 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2652 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2653 would do in the same situation.
2654 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2655 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2657 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2659 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2660 permissions changed.
2661 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2662 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2663 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2664 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2665 files are treated identically.
2666 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2667 * Minor man page fixes.
2668 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2669 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2670 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2674 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2677 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2678 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2679 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2680 use -X multiple times, too.
2681 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2682 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2686 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2689 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2690 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2694 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2697 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2701 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2704 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2705 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2706 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2707 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2708 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2709 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2710 shape if you're starting a new package.
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2714 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2717 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2721 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2724 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2725 because of missing symlinks.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2729 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2735 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2738 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2739 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2740 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2741 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2742 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2744 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2745 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2749 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2751 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2752 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2753 to be changed after the fact :-)
2754 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2758 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2761 no version string after the -V.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2765 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2767 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2768 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2773 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2776 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2780 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2783 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2784 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2785 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2786 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2787 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2788 I always welcome corrections!
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2792 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2798 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2801 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2802 * Documented this new switch.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2806 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2809 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2810 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2811 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2812 no packages use the old behavior.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2816 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2819 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2820 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2824 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2827 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2831 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2837 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2840 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2844 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2847 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2848 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2849 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2853 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2859 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2862 into the source package by accident.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2866 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2869 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2870 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2871 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2872 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2873 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2874 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2879 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2883 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2884 inspired to implement some of it.
2885 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2889 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2892 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2896 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2899 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2900 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2904 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2907 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2908 have done.) (#17598)
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2912 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2918 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2924 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2927 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2931 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2934 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2935 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2939 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2942 argument processor in perl.
2943 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2944 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2945 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2946 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2950 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2953 type directories. (#16933)
2954 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2955 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2956 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2957 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2958 are supported. (#16935)
2959 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2964 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2967 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2971 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2975 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2976 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2977 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2978 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2979 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2980 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2984 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2987 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2988 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2990 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2991 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2992 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2993 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2994 a given package, or -i or -a.
2995 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2996 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2997 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2998 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2999 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3000 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3001 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3002 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3003 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3005 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3006 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3007 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3011 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3014 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3015 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3020 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3023 does not have a section.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3027 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3030 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3031 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3032 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3036 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * Fixed typo #16215.
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3042 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3045 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3046 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3047 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3048 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3049 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3054 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3057 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3058 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3059 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3064 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3070 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3076 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3079 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3080 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3081 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3082 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3083 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3084 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3088 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3094 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3097 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3101 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3104 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3105 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3106 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3110 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3113 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3117 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3123 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3126 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3130 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3133 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3137 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3143 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3146 postinst, postrm, etc.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3150 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3156 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3159 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3160 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3161 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3162 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3163 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3167 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3170 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3171 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3175 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3178 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3182 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3185 installing package files into.
3186 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3191 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3195 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3199 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3205 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3208 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3212 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3215 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3216 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3217 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3218 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3222 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3224 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3225 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3226 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3227 multiple binary packages.
3228 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3229 should rebuild them with this version.
3230 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3234 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3237 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3241 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3244 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3248 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3251 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3252 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3253 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3254 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3255 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3256 debian/README.debian.
3257 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3258 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3259 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3260 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3261 in a few situations.)
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3265 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3271 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3277 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3280 * Fixed several man pages.
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3284 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3287 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3288 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3292 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3295 is ready for general use.
3296 * Added man pages for all commands.
3297 * Multiple binary package support.
3298 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3299 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3300 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3302 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3303 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3304 auto-installed as parameters.
3305 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3307 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3310 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3311 the package build directory it is to act on.
3312 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3313 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3314 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3318 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3320 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3321 ready to replace debstd.
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400