1 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
4 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
8 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
11 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
16 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Typo, Closes: #114135
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
22 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
25 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
29 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
35 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
39 Also some indentation fixes.
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
43 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
46 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
47 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
48 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
49 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
50 Closes: #106514, #85520
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
54 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Typo, Closes: #104405
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
60 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
66 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
68 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
72 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
78 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
84 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
87 change it in debhelper v4..
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
91 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
97 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
100 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
104 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
107 is not essential. Closes: #100430
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
111 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
117 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
120 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
121 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
122 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
123 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
124 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
125 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
126 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
127 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
128 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
129 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
130 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
131 prefixed with ".debhelper")
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
135 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
138 look just like shared libs, but are not.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
142 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
149 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
152 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
153 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
154 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
155 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
156 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
157 program those options go to. So, for example,
158 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
159 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
160 something complex. Closes: #89311
161 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
165 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
167 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
168 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
169 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
170 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
174 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
177 through loop. Closes: #98598
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
181 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Missing semi-colon.
184 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
185 this (dh_* should be called, really).
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
189 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
192 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
193 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
194 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
198 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
200 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
201 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
202 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
206 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
209 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
213 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
216 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
217 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
221 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
223 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
224 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
225 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
226 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
230 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
233 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
234 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
235 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
239 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
242 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
246 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
252 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Typo, Closes: #92407
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
258 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
260 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
264 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
270 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
273 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
277 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
280 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
281 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
282 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
283 followed. Closes: #85483
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
287 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
289 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
290 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
291 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
295 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
298 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
299 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
300 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
301 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
302 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
303 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
304 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
305 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
306 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
307 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
308 Closes: #88464, #77743
309 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
310 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
311 us to deal with that gracefully.
312 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
314 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
315 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
316 a while, Closes: #51225
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
320 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
326 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
329 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
333 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
337 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
342 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
345 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
346 don't make packlist files.
347 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
348 debhelper coding standards.
349 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
350 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
354 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
357 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
361 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
364 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
365 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
366 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
367 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
368 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
369 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
370 but is mildly deprecated.
371 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
372 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
373 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
374 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
375 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
376 switching to statoverrides..
377 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
378 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
379 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
380 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
381 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
382 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
384 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
385 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
386 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
387 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
388 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
389 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
390 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
391 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
392 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
394 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
395 variable names, pod man pages).
396 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
397 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
398 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
399 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
400 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
401 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
402 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
406 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
412 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
419 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
422 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
426 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
428 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
429 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
430 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
434 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
436 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
437 they were previously ignored.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
441 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
443 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
444 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
448 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
450 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
451 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
452 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
456 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
458 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
462 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
464 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
465 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
469 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
471 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
472 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
473 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
474 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
475 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
476 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
477 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
478 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
479 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
480 it is an obsolete program.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
484 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
486 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
490 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
494 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
496 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
500 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
502 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
504 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
506 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
510 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
516 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
518 * typo: Closes, #78567
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
522 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
528 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
534 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
536 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
537 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
538 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
539 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
540 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
541 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
545 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
548 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
553 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
556 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
557 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
558 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
559 backwards-compatability.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
563 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
565 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
566 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
567 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
568 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
569 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
570 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
571 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
573 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
574 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
575 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
577 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
579 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
580 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
581 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
582 should now be raised to severity important..
583 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
584 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
588 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
591 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
596 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Typo, Closes: #77441
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
602 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Completed the fix from the last version.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
608 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
614 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
616 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
621 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
624 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
625 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
626 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
627 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
631 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
637 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
640 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
641 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
642 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
643 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
644 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
645 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
650 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
653 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
657 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
663 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
666 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
671 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
674 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
675 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
676 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
677 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
681 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
685 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
688 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
690 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
691 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
692 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
695 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
697 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
698 the TODO entry about it.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
702 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
709 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
712 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
713 prevent that. Closes: #73052
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
717 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Typo, Closes: #72932
720 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
721 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
722 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
723 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
727 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
733 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
740 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
743 (this appears to be logal).
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
747 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
750 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
751 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
752 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
753 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
757 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
763 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
765 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
766 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
767 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
768 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
769 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
773 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
779 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
781 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
782 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
786 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
793 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
796 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
797 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
798 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
803 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
810 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
816 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
818 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
819 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
820 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
821 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
822 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
823 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
824 notice until v2 is complete.
825 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
826 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
827 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
828 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
829 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
830 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
832 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
833 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
834 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
835 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
839 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
845 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
852 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
855 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
859 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
866 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
869 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
870 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
871 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
872 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
877 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
880 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
881 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
882 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
887 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
890 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
891 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
895 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
898 just skip files that end in -\d+.
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
902 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
905 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
909 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
911 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
916 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
918 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
919 depend on the build and install targets.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
923 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
926 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
930 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
937 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
943 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
949 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
952 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
953 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
954 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
955 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
956 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
957 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
959 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
960 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
961 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
962 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
963 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
964 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
965 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
969 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
975 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
981 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
984 right place. Closes: #55065
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
988 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
990 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
995 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Make all examples rules files executable.
998 * Copyright date updates.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1002 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1005 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1010 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1016 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1023 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1029 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1035 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1041 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1044 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1045 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1046 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1047 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1048 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1049 bits until all files have been registered.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1053 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_installmanpages:
1056 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1057 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1058 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1059 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1060 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1061 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1062 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1063 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1064 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1065 otherwise change the result at all.
1067 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1068 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1069 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1070 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1071 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1076 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1082 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1085 act on files that don't exist.
1086 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1087 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1088 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1090 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1091 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1092 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1093 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1097 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1103 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1109 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1112 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1116 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1119 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1121 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1122 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1123 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1127 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1130 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1131 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1132 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1133 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1134 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1135 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1136 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1138 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1140 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1144 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1151 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1157 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1163 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1166 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1170 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1176 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1182 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1185 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1186 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1187 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1188 I made some changes, though:
1189 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1190 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1191 that is a clear violation of policy.
1192 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1193 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1194 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1195 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1196 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1197 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1198 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1199 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1200 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1202 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1206 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1212 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1215 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1219 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1222 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1223 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1228 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1234 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1241 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1244 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1245 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1246 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1247 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1248 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1249 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1250 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1254 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1260 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1264 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1265 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1269 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1275 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1278 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1282 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1285 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1286 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1290 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1292 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1297 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1301 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1305 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1308 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1309 for the dependancies to be generated.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1313 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1316 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1320 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1323 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1324 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1325 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1330 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1333 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1334 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1338 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1344 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1350 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1353 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1357 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1363 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1366 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1367 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1368 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1369 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1370 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1371 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1372 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1373 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1374 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1375 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1376 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1377 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1381 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1384 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1385 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1387 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1388 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1389 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1390 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1391 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1392 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1394 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1395 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1399 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1402 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1406 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1413 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1416 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1421 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1424 for building debhelper.
1425 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1429 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1436 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1439 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1443 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1446 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1447 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1448 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1449 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1450 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1451 it's always available.
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1455 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1458 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1459 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1460 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1464 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1467 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1468 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1472 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1478 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1481 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1485 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1491 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1494 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1495 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1496 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1500 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1503 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1508 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1511 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1512 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1514 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1515 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1519 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1525 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1531 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1534 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1538 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1541 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1542 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1544 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1548 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1551 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1552 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1553 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1557 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1560 things if CDPATH is set.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1564 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1570 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1573 seems to make sense for the transition.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1577 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1580 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1585 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1588 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1589 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1593 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1596 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1600 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1603 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1604 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1605 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1606 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1610 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1616 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1619 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1620 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1621 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1622 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1623 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1624 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1625 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1626 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1627 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1628 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1633 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1636 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1637 * README: mention doc/v2
1638 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1639 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1643 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1645 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1646 be using this script RSN.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1650 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1653 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1654 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1655 more than 1 init script.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1659 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1662 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1666 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Changed perl version detection.
1669 * Changed call to find.
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1673 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1676 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1678 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1683 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Really include dh_installpam.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1689 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1692 * Wrote man page for same.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1696 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1699 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1700 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1705 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1712 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1715 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1716 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1717 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1718 x bit was being set!
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1722 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1725 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1726 well. (Closes: 38900)
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1730 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1733 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1734 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1738 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1744 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1751 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1757 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1760 help from Julian Gilbey.
1761 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1762 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1763 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1764 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1765 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1766 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1767 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1772 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1778 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1785 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1791 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1797 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1800 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1804 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1807 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1811 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1814 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1818 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1824 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1827 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1831 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1837 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1843 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1846 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1847 may be deleted. (#35845)
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1851 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * Various man page enhancements.
1854 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1859 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1862 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1863 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1867 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1870 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1871 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1872 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1874 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1875 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1880 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1886 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Another very minor typo fix.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1892 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Very minor typo fix.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1898 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1901 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1902 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1906 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1912 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1915 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1916 variables properly (#34850).
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1920 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1926 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1929 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1930 (automatically generated by build process).
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1934 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1936 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1940 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1943 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1944 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1946 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1950 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1953 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1957 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * README: minor typo fix.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1963 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1966 leave it at that. :-)
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1970 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1976 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1982 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1985 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1986 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1987 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1991 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1994 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1998 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2001 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2005 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2008 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2009 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2010 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2011 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2015 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2018 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2019 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2020 Craig Small for spotting this.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2024 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2027 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2028 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2032 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2038 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2041 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2045 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2047 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2048 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2049 working on the last version of debhelper.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2053 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2056 being made. (#23255)
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2060 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2066 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2069 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2073 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2076 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2077 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2078 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2079 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2083 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2086 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2087 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2088 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2089 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2091 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2092 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2094 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2099 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2105 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2111 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2114 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2115 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2116 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2117 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2118 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2119 suidregister actually supports it.
2120 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2121 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2125 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2132 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2135 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2136 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2137 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2138 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2139 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2140 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2141 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2145 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2147 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2148 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2152 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2155 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2156 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2157 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2158 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2162 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2165 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2167 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2168 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2169 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2170 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2171 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2172 effect, either. (#30118)
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2176 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2182 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2185 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2186 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2190 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2196 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2199 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2200 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2201 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2202 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2206 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2209 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2210 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2214 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2220 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2223 packages, painlessly.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2227 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2233 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2239 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2245 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * The perl conversion is complete.
2249 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2251 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2252 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2253 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2258 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2261 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2262 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2263 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2267 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2270 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2272 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2274 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2275 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2279 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2282 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2283 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2287 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2293 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2296 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2297 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2298 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2299 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2300 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2304 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2307 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2308 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2309 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2310 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2314 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2317 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2321 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2324 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2325 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2326 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2327 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2328 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2329 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2330 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2331 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2335 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2341 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2344 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2345 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2346 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2351 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2354 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2358 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2361 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2365 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2368 sections of shared libraries.
2369 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2370 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2371 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2372 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2373 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2374 things you don't want them to.
2375 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2376 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2380 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2383 shared libraries. (#26414)
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2387 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2389 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2390 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2391 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2392 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2396 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2400 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2402 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2403 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2404 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2405 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2406 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2410 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2413 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2417 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2420 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2421 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2426 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2429 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2433 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2436 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2437 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2438 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2439 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2440 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2442 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2443 remove debian/files properly.
2444 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2445 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2446 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2447 * Removed bogus menu file.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2451 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2454 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2458 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2461 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2462 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2463 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2464 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2465 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2466 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2470 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2473 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2474 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2475 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2476 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2480 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2487 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2490 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2491 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2493 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2494 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2495 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2496 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2497 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2498 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2502 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2505 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2506 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2507 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2508 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2509 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2510 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2511 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2512 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2513 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2514 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2515 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2516 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2517 passed any switches.
2518 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2522 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2525 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2526 at all for a long while.
2527 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2528 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2529 large chunks in the process.
2530 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2531 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2532 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2537 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2540 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2542 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2547 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2550 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2551 that don't always have the same files in them.
2552 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2553 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2554 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2558 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2562 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2563 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2564 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2565 updating 27 man pages.
2566 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2567 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2568 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2569 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2570 programs act on. (#25247)
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2574 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2578 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2579 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2580 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2581 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2582 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2583 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2588 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2595 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2602 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2605 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2609 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2615 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2618 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2619 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2620 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2621 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2622 package by accident.
2623 * Is version 1.0 next?
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2627 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2630 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2631 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2635 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2638 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2639 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2640 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2641 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2642 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2644 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2649 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2652 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2653 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2657 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2660 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2664 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2667 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2668 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2673 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2679 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2682 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2683 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2688 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2694 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2697 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2698 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2699 past week. Thanks, guys!
2701 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2702 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2703 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2704 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2705 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2706 would do in the same situation.
2707 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2708 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2710 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2712 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2713 permissions changed.
2714 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2715 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2716 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2717 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2718 files are treated identically.
2719 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2720 * Minor man page fixes.
2721 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2722 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2723 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2727 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2730 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2731 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2732 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2733 use -X multiple times, too.
2734 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2735 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2739 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2742 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2743 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2747 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2750 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2754 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2757 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2758 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2759 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2760 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2761 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2762 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2763 shape if you're starting a new package.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2767 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2770 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2774 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2777 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2778 because of missing symlinks.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2782 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2788 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2791 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2792 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2793 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2794 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2795 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2797 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2798 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2802 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2804 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2805 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2806 to be changed after the fact :-)
2807 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2811 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2814 no version string after the -V.
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2818 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2820 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2821 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2826 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2829 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2833 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2836 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2837 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2838 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2839 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2840 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2841 I always welcome corrections!
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2845 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2851 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2854 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2855 * Documented this new switch.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2859 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2862 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2863 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2864 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2865 no packages use the old behavior.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2869 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2872 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2873 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2877 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2880 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2884 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2890 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2893 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2897 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2900 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2901 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2902 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2906 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2912 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2915 into the source package by accident.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2919 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2922 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2923 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2924 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2925 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2926 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2927 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2932 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2936 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2937 inspired to implement some of it.
2938 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2942 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2945 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2949 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2952 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2953 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2957 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2960 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2961 have done.) (#17598)
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2965 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2971 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2977 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2980 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2984 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2987 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2988 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2992 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2995 argument processor in perl.
2996 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2997 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2998 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2999 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3003 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3006 type directories. (#16933)
3007 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3008 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3009 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3010 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3011 are supported. (#16935)
3012 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3017 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3020 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3024 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3028 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3029 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3030 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3031 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3032 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3033 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3037 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3040 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3041 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3043 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3044 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3045 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3046 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3047 a given package, or -i or -a.
3048 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3049 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3050 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3051 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3052 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3053 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3054 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3055 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3056 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3058 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3059 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3060 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3064 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3067 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3068 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3073 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3076 does not have a section.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3080 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3083 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3084 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3085 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3089 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * Fixed typo #16215.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3095 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3098 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3099 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3100 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3101 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3102 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3107 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3110 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3111 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3112 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3117 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3123 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3129 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3132 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3133 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3134 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3135 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3136 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3137 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3141 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3147 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3150 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3154 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3157 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3158 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3159 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3163 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3166 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3170 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3176 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3179 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3183 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3186 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3190 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3196 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3199 postinst, postrm, etc.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3203 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3209 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3212 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3213 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3214 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3215 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3216 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3220 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3223 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3224 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3228 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3231 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3235 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3238 installing package files into.
3239 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3244 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3248 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3252 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3258 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3261 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3265 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3268 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3269 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3270 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3271 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3275 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3277 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3278 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3279 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3280 multiple binary packages.
3281 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3282 should rebuild them with this version.
3283 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3287 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3290 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3294 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3297 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3301 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3304 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3305 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3306 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3307 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3308 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3309 debian/README.debian.
3310 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3311 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3312 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3313 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3314 in a few situations.)
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3318 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3324 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3330 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3333 * Fixed several man pages.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3337 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3340 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3341 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3345 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3348 is ready for general use.
3349 * Added man pages for all commands.
3350 * Multiple binary package support.
3351 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3352 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3353 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3355 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3356 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3357 auto-installed as parameters.
3358 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3360 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3363 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3364 the package build directory it is to act on.
3365 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3366 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3367 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3371 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3373 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3374 ready to replace debstd.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400