1 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
4 change it in debhelper v4..
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
8 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
14 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
17 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
21 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
24 is not essential. Closes: #100430
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
28 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
34 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
37 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
38 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
39 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
40 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
41 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
42 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
43 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
44 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
45 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
46 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
47 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
48 prefixed with ".debhelper")
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
52 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
55 look just like shared libs, but are not.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
59 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
66 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
69 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
70 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
71 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
72 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
73 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
74 program those options go to. So, for example,
75 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
76 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
77 something complex. Closes: #89311
78 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
82 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
84 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
85 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
86 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
87 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
91 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
94 through loop. Closes: #98598
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
98 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Missing semi-colon.
101 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
102 this (dh_* should be called, really).
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
106 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
109 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
110 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
111 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
115 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
118 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
119 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
123 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
126 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
130 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
133 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
134 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
138 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
141 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
142 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
143 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
147 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
149 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
150 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
151 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
152 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
156 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
159 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
163 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
165 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
169 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Typo, Closes: #92407
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
175 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
181 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
187 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
190 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
194 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
197 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
198 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
199 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
200 followed. Closes: #85483
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
204 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
206 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
207 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
208 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
212 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
215 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
216 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
217 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
218 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
219 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
220 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
221 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
222 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
223 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
224 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
225 Closes: #88464, #77743
226 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
227 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
228 us to deal with that gracefully.
229 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
231 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
232 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
233 a while, Closes: #51225
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
237 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
243 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
246 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
250 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
254 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
259 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
262 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
263 don't make packlist files.
264 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
265 debhelper coding standards.
266 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
267 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
271 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
274 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
278 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
281 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
282 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
283 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
284 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
285 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
286 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
287 but is mildly deprecated.
288 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
289 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
290 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
291 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
292 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
293 switching to statoverrides..
294 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
295 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
296 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
297 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
298 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
299 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
301 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
302 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
303 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
304 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
305 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
306 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
307 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
308 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
309 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
311 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
312 variable names, pod man pages).
313 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
314 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
315 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
316 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
317 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
318 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
319 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
323 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
329 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
336 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
339 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
343 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
345 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
346 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
347 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
351 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
353 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
354 they were previously ignored.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
358 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
360 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
361 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
365 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
367 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
368 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
369 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
373 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
375 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
379 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
381 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
382 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
386 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
388 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
389 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
390 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
391 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
392 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
393 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
394 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
395 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
396 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
397 it is an obsolete program.
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
401 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
403 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
407 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
411 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
413 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
417 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
419 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
421 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
423 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
427 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
433 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
435 * typo: Closes, #78567
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
439 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
445 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
451 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
453 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
454 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
455 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
456 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
457 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
458 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
462 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
465 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
470 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
473 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
474 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
475 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
476 backwards-compatability.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
480 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
482 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
483 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
484 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
485 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
486 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
487 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
488 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
490 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
491 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
492 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
494 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
496 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
497 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
498 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
499 should now be raised to severity important..
500 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
501 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
505 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
508 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
513 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Typo, Closes: #77441
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
519 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Completed the fix from the last version.
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
525 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
527 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
531 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
533 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
538 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
541 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
542 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
543 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
544 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
548 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
554 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
557 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
558 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
559 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
560 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
561 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
562 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
567 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
570 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
574 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
580 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
583 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
588 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
591 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
592 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
593 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
594 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
598 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
602 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
605 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
608 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
609 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
612 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
614 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
615 the TODO entry about it.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
619 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
626 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
629 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
630 prevent that. Closes: #73052
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
634 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Typo, Closes: #72932
637 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
638 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
639 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
640 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
644 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
650 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
657 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
660 (this appears to be logal).
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
664 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
667 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
668 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
669 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
670 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
674 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
680 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
682 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
683 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
684 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
685 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
686 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
690 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
696 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
699 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
703 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
710 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
713 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
714 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
715 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
720 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
727 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
733 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
735 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
736 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
737 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
738 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
739 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
740 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
741 notice until v2 is complete.
742 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
743 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
744 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
745 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
746 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
747 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
749 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
750 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
751 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
752 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
756 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
762 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
769 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
772 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
776 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
778 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
783 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
786 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
787 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
788 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
789 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
794 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
797 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
798 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
799 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
804 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
807 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
808 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
812 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
815 just skip files that end in -\d+.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
819 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
822 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
826 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
833 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
835 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
836 depend on the build and install targets.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
840 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
843 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
847 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
854 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
860 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
866 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
869 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
870 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
871 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
872 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
873 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
874 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
876 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
877 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
878 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
879 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
880 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
881 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
882 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
886 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
892 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
898 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
901 right place. Closes: #55065
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
905 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
912 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Make all examples rules files executable.
915 * Copyright date updates.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
919 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
922 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
927 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
933 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
940 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
946 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
952 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
958 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
961 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
962 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
963 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
964 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
965 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
966 bits until all files have been registered.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
970 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_installmanpages:
973 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
974 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
975 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
976 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
977 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
978 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
979 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
980 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
981 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
982 otherwise change the result at all.
984 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
985 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
986 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
987 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
988 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
993 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
999 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1002 act on files that don't exist.
1003 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1004 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1005 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1007 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1008 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1009 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1010 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1014 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1020 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1026 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1029 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1033 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1036 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1038 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1039 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1040 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1044 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1047 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1048 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1049 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1050 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1051 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1052 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1053 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1055 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1057 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1061 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1068 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1074 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1080 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1083 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1087 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1099 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1102 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1103 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1104 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1105 I made some changes, though:
1106 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1107 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1108 that is a clear violation of policy.
1109 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1110 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1111 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1112 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1113 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1114 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1115 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1116 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1117 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1119 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1123 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1129 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1132 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1136 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1139 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1140 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1145 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1151 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1158 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1161 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1162 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1163 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1164 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1165 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1166 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1167 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1171 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1177 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1181 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1182 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1186 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1192 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1195 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1199 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1202 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1203 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1207 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1209 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1214 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1218 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1222 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1225 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1226 for the dependancies to be generated.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1230 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1233 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1237 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1240 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1241 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1242 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1247 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1250 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1251 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1255 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1261 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1270 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1274 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1280 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1283 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1284 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1285 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1286 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1287 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1288 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1289 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1290 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1291 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1292 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1293 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1294 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1298 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1301 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1302 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1304 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1305 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1306 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1307 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1308 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1309 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1311 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1312 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1319 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1323 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1330 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1333 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1338 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1341 for building debhelper.
1342 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1346 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1353 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1356 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1360 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1363 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1364 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1365 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1366 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1367 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1368 it's always available.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1372 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1375 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1376 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1377 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1381 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1384 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1385 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1389 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1395 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1398 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1402 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1408 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1411 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1412 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1413 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1417 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1420 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1425 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1428 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1429 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1431 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1432 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1436 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1442 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1448 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1451 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1455 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1458 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1459 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1461 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1465 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1468 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1469 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1470 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1474 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1477 things if CDPATH is set.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1481 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1487 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1490 seems to make sense for the transition.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1494 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1497 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1502 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1505 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1506 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1513 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1517 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1520 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1521 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1522 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1523 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1527 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1533 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1536 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1537 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1538 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1539 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1540 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1541 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1542 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1543 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1544 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1545 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1550 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1553 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1554 * README: mention doc/v2
1555 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1556 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1560 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1562 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1563 be using this script RSN.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1567 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1570 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1571 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1572 more than 1 init script.
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1576 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1579 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1583 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Changed perl version detection.
1586 * Changed call to find.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1590 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1593 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1595 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1600 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Really include dh_installpam.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1606 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1609 * Wrote man page for same.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1613 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1616 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1617 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1622 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1629 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1632 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1633 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1634 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1635 x bit was being set!
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1639 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1642 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1643 well. (Closes: 38900)
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1647 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1650 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1651 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1655 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1661 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1668 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1674 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1677 help from Julian Gilbey.
1678 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1679 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1680 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1681 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1682 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1683 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1684 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1689 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1695 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1702 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1708 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1714 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1717 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1721 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1724 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1728 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1731 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1735 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1741 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1744 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1748 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1754 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1760 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1763 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1764 may be deleted. (#35845)
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1768 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Various man page enhancements.
1771 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1776 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1779 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1780 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1784 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1787 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1788 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1789 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1791 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1792 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1797 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1803 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Another very minor typo fix.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1809 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Very minor typo fix.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1815 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1818 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1819 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1823 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1829 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1832 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1833 variables properly (#34850).
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1837 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1843 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1846 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1847 (automatically generated by build process).
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1851 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1853 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1857 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1860 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1861 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1863 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1867 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1870 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1874 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * README: minor typo fix.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1880 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1883 leave it at that. :-)
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1887 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1893 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1899 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1902 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1903 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1904 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1908 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1911 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1915 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1918 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1922 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1925 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1926 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1927 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1928 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1932 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1935 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1936 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1937 Craig Small for spotting this.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1941 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1944 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1945 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1949 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1955 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1958 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1962 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1964 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1965 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1966 working on the last version of debhelper.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1970 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1973 being made. (#23255)
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1977 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1983 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1986 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1990 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1993 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1994 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1995 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1996 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2000 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2003 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2004 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2005 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2006 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2008 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2009 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2011 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2016 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2022 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2028 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2031 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2032 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2033 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2034 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2035 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2036 suidregister actually supports it.
2037 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2038 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2042 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2049 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2052 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2053 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2054 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2055 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2056 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2057 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2058 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2062 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2064 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2065 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2069 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2072 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2073 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2074 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2075 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2079 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2082 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2084 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2085 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2086 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2087 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2088 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2089 effect, either. (#30118)
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2093 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2099 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2102 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2103 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2107 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2113 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2116 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2117 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2118 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2119 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2123 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2126 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2127 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2131 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2137 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2140 packages, painlessly.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2144 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2150 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2156 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2162 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * The perl conversion is complete.
2166 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2168 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2169 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2170 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2175 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2178 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2179 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2180 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2184 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2187 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2189 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2191 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2192 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2196 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2199 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2200 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2204 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2210 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2213 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2214 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2215 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2216 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2217 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2221 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2224 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2225 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2226 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2227 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2231 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2234 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2238 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2241 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2242 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2243 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2244 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2245 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2246 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2247 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2248 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2252 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2258 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2261 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2262 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2263 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2268 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2271 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2275 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2278 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2282 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2285 sections of shared libraries.
2286 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2287 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2288 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2289 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2290 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2291 things you don't want them to.
2292 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2293 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2297 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2300 shared libraries. (#26414)
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2304 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2306 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2307 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2308 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2309 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2313 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2317 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2319 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2320 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2321 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2322 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2323 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2327 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2330 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2334 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2337 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2338 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2343 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2346 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2350 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2353 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2354 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2355 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2356 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2357 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2359 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2360 remove debian/files properly.
2361 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2362 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2363 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2364 * Removed bogus menu file.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2368 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2371 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2375 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2378 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2379 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2380 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2381 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2382 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2383 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2387 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2390 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2391 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2392 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2393 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2397 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2404 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2407 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2408 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2410 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2411 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2412 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2413 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2414 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2415 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2419 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2422 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2423 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2424 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2425 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2426 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2427 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2428 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2429 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2430 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2431 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2432 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2433 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2434 passed any switches.
2435 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2439 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2442 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2443 at all for a long while.
2444 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2445 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2446 large chunks in the process.
2447 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2448 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2449 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2454 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2457 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2459 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2464 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2467 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2468 that don't always have the same files in them.
2469 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2470 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2471 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2475 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2479 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2480 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2481 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2482 updating 27 man pages.
2483 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2484 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2485 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2486 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2487 programs act on. (#25247)
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2491 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2495 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2496 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2497 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2498 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2499 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2500 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2505 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2512 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2519 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2522 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2526 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2532 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2535 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2536 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2537 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2538 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2539 package by accident.
2540 * Is version 1.0 next?
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2544 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2547 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2548 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2552 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2555 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2556 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2557 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2558 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2559 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2561 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2566 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2569 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2570 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2574 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2577 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2581 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2584 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2585 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2590 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2596 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2599 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2600 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2605 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2611 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2614 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2615 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2616 past week. Thanks, guys!
2618 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2619 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2620 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2621 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2622 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2623 would do in the same situation.
2624 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2625 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2627 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2629 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2630 permissions changed.
2631 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2632 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2633 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2634 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2635 files are treated identically.
2636 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2637 * Minor man page fixes.
2638 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2639 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2640 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2644 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2647 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2648 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2649 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2650 use -X multiple times, too.
2651 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2652 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2656 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2659 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2660 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2664 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2667 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2671 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2674 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2675 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2676 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2677 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2678 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2679 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2680 shape if you're starting a new package.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2684 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2687 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2691 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2694 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2695 because of missing symlinks.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2699 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2705 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2708 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2709 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2710 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2711 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2712 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2714 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2715 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2719 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2721 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2722 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2723 to be changed after the fact :-)
2724 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2728 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2730 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2731 no version string after the -V.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2735 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2737 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2738 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2743 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2746 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2750 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2753 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2754 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2755 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2756 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2757 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2758 I always welcome corrections!
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2762 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2768 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2771 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2772 * Documented this new switch.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2776 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2779 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2780 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2781 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2782 no packages use the old behavior.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2786 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2789 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2790 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2794 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2797 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2801 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2807 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2810 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2814 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2817 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2818 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2819 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2823 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2829 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2832 into the source package by accident.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2836 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2839 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2840 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2841 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2842 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2843 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2844 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2849 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2853 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2854 inspired to implement some of it.
2855 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2859 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2862 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2866 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2869 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2870 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2874 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2877 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2878 have done.) (#17598)
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2882 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2888 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2894 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2897 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2901 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2904 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2905 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2909 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2912 argument processor in perl.
2913 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2914 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2915 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2916 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2920 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2923 type directories. (#16933)
2924 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2925 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2926 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2927 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2928 are supported. (#16935)
2929 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2934 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2937 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2941 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2945 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2946 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2947 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2948 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2949 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2950 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2954 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2957 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2958 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2960 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2961 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2962 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2963 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2964 a given package, or -i or -a.
2965 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2966 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2967 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2968 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2969 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2970 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2971 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2972 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2973 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2975 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2976 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2977 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2981 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2984 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2985 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2990 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2993 does not have a section.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2997 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3000 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3001 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3002 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3006 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Fixed typo #16215.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3012 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3015 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3016 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3017 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3018 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3019 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3024 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3027 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3028 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3029 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3034 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3040 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3046 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3049 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3050 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3051 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3052 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3053 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3054 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3058 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3064 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3067 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3071 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3074 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3075 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3076 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3080 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3083 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3087 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3093 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3096 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3100 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3103 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3107 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3113 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3116 postinst, postrm, etc.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3120 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3126 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3129 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3130 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3131 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3132 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3133 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3137 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3140 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3141 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3145 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3148 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3152 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3155 installing package files into.
3156 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3161 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3165 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3169 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3175 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3178 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3182 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3185 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3186 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3187 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3188 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3192 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3194 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3195 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3196 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3197 multiple binary packages.
3198 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3199 should rebuild them with this version.
3200 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3204 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3207 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3211 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3214 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3218 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3221 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3222 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3223 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3224 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3225 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3226 debian/README.debian.
3227 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3228 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3229 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3230 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3231 in a few situations.)
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3235 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3241 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3247 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3250 * Fixed several man pages.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3254 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3257 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3258 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3262 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3265 is ready for general use.
3266 * Added man pages for all commands.
3267 * Multiple binary package support.
3268 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3269 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3270 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3272 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3273 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3274 auto-installed as parameters.
3275 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3277 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3280 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3281 the package build directory it is to act on.
3282 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3283 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3284 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3288 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3290 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3291 ready to replace debstd.
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400