1 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
4 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
5 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
6 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
7 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
11 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
13 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
14 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
18 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
21 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
22 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
26 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
30 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
35 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
41 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
45 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
46 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
47 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
52 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
54 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
55 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
56 practice. Closes: #163303
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
60 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
66 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
73 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
75 * The "reverse hangover" release.
76 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
78 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
79 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
80 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
81 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
82 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
86 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
88 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
89 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
94 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
100 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
102 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
107 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
110 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
115 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
121 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
127 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
129 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
133 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
140 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
143 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
144 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
145 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
146 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
151 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Typo, Closes: #155323
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
157 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
164 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
167 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
168 * Removed dh_installxaw.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
172 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
175 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
176 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
177 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
178 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
179 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
183 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
186 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
188 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
193 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
195 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
196 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
200 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
203 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
204 right thing. Closes: #150644
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
208 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
215 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
217 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
222 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
225 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
226 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
231 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
237 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
240 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
244 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
247 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
248 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
253 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
256 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
260 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
266 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
269 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
270 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
274 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
280 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
282 * Removing perl warning message.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
286 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
289 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
290 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
291 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
292 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
293 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
294 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
295 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
296 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
300 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
306 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
313 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
316 debconf-mergetemplate.
317 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
318 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
322 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
325 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
326 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
327 dh_install, which ...
328 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
329 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
330 mess, as it uses debian/install.
331 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
332 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
333 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
334 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
335 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
336 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
337 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
338 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
339 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
340 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
341 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
343 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
344 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
345 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
346 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
347 course there's -X ..)
348 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
349 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
350 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
352 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
353 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
354 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
355 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
356 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
361 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
367 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Typo, Closes: #139176
370 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
374 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
380 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
386 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
392 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
398 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
401 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
402 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
403 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
404 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
406 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
407 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
411 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
417 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Typo, Closes: #132454
420 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
424 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
427 upset. Closes: #131322
429 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
431 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
434 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
435 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
436 line, as well as in debian/rules.
437 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
438 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
439 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
440 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
441 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
442 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
443 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
444 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
445 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
446 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
447 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
448 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
450 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
454 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
457 - Better indenting of generated code.
458 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
462 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
466 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
467 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
468 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
469 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
470 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
471 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
472 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
476 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
479 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
483 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
486 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
487 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
488 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
489 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
490 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
491 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
492 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
493 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
494 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
495 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
496 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
497 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
498 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
499 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
500 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
505 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
511 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
514 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
515 * fixed dh_testdir man page
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
519 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Typo, Closes: #122679
522 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
523 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
527 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
533 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
536 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
537 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
538 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
539 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
540 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
545 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
547 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
551 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
554 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
558 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
561 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
566 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Typo, Closes: #114135
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
572 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
575 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
579 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
585 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
589 Also some indentation fixes.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
593 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
596 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
597 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
598 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
599 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
600 Closes: #106514, #85520
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
604 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Typo, Closes: #104405
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
610 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
616 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
618 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
622 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
628 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
634 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
637 change it in debhelper v4..
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
641 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
647 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
650 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
654 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
657 is not essential. Closes: #100430
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
661 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
667 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
670 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
671 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
672 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
673 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
674 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
675 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
676 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
677 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
678 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
679 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
680 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
681 prefixed with ".debhelper")
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
685 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
688 look just like shared libs, but are not.
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
692 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
699 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
701 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
702 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
703 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
704 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
705 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
706 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
707 program those options go to. So, for example,
708 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
709 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
710 something complex. Closes: #89311
711 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
715 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
718 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
719 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
720 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
724 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
727 through loop. Closes: #98598
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
731 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Missing semi-colon.
734 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
735 this (dh_* should be called, really).
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
739 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
742 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
743 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
744 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
748 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
751 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
752 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
756 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
759 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
763 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
766 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
767 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
771 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
774 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
775 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
776 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
780 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
783 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
784 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
785 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
789 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
791 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
792 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
796 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
802 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Typo, Closes: #92407
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
808 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
814 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
820 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
823 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
827 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
830 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
831 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
832 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
833 followed. Closes: #85483
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
837 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
839 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
840 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
841 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
845 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
848 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
849 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
850 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
851 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
852 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
853 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
854 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
855 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
856 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
857 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
858 Closes: #88464, #77743
859 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
860 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
861 us to deal with that gracefully.
862 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
864 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
865 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
866 a while, Closes: #51225
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
870 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
876 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
879 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
883 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
887 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
892 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
895 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
896 don't make packlist files.
897 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
898 debhelper coding standards.
899 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
900 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
904 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
907 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
911 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
914 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
915 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
916 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
917 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
918 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
919 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
920 but is mildly deprecated.
921 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
922 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
923 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
924 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
925 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
926 switching to statoverrides..
927 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
928 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
929 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
930 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
931 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
932 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
934 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
935 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
936 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
937 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
938 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
939 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
940 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
941 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
942 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
944 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
945 variable names, pod man pages).
946 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
947 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
948 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
949 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
950 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
951 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
952 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
956 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
962 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
969 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
972 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
976 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
978 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
979 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
980 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
984 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
986 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
987 they were previously ignored.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
991 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
993 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
994 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
998 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1000 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1001 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1002 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1006 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1008 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1012 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1014 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1015 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1019 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1021 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1022 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1023 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1024 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1025 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1026 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1027 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1028 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1029 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1030 it is an obsolete program.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1034 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1036 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1040 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1044 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1046 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1050 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1052 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1054 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1056 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1060 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1066 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * typo: Closes, #78567
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1072 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1078 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1084 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1087 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1088 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1089 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1090 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1091 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1095 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1098 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1103 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1106 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1107 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1108 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1109 backwards-compatability.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1113 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1116 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1117 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1118 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1119 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1120 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1121 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1123 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1124 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1125 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1127 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1129 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1130 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1131 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1132 should now be raised to severity important..
1133 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1134 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1138 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1141 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1146 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1152 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1158 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1164 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1171 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1174 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1175 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1176 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1177 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1181 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1187 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1190 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1191 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1192 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1193 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1194 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1195 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1200 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1203 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1207 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1213 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1216 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1221 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1224 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1225 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1226 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1227 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1231 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1235 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1238 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1241 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1242 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1245 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1247 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1248 the TODO entry about it.
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1259 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1262 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1263 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1270 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1271 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1272 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1273 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1277 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1283 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1290 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1293 (this appears to be logal).
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1297 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1300 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1301 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1302 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1303 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1307 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1313 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1316 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1317 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1318 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1319 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1323 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1329 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1332 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1336 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1343 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1346 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1347 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1348 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1353 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1360 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1366 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1369 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1370 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1371 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1372 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1373 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1374 notice until v2 is complete.
1375 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1376 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1377 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1378 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1379 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1380 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1382 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1383 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1384 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1385 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1389 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1395 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1402 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1405 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1409 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1416 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1419 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1420 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1421 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1422 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1427 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1430 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1431 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1432 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1437 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1440 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1441 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1445 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1448 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1452 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1455 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1459 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1466 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1469 depend on the build and install targets.
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1473 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1476 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1480 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1487 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1493 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1499 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1502 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1503 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1504 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1505 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1506 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1507 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1509 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1510 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1511 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1512 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1513 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1514 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1515 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1519 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1525 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1531 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1534 right place. Closes: #55065
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1538 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1545 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1548 * Copyright date updates.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1552 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1555 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1560 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1566 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1573 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1579 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1585 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1591 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1594 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1595 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1596 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1597 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1598 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1599 bits until all files have been registered.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1603 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_installmanpages:
1606 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1607 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1608 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1609 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1610 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1611 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1612 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1613 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1614 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1615 otherwise change the result at all.
1617 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1618 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1619 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1620 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1621 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1626 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1632 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1635 act on files that don't exist.
1636 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1637 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1638 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1640 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1641 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1642 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1643 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1647 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1653 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1659 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1662 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1666 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1669 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1671 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1672 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1673 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1677 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1680 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1681 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1682 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1683 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1684 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1685 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1686 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1688 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1690 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1694 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1701 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1707 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1713 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1716 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1720 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1726 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1732 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1735 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1736 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1737 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1738 I made some changes, though:
1739 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1740 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1741 that is a clear violation of policy.
1742 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1743 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1744 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1745 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1746 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1747 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1748 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1749 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1750 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1752 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1756 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1762 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1765 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1772 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1773 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1778 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1784 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1791 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1794 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1795 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1796 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1797 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1798 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1799 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1800 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1804 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1810 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1814 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1815 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1819 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1825 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1828 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1832 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1835 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1836 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1840 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1842 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1847 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1851 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1855 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1858 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1859 for the dependancies to be generated.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1863 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1866 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1870 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1873 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1874 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1875 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1880 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1883 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1884 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1888 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1894 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1900 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1903 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1907 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1913 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1916 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1917 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1918 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1919 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1920 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1921 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1922 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1923 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1924 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1925 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1926 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1927 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1931 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1934 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1935 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1937 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1938 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1939 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1940 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1941 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1942 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1944 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1945 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1949 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1952 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1956 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1963 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1966 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1971 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1974 for building debhelper.
1975 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1979 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1986 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1989 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1993 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1996 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1997 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1998 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1999 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2000 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2001 it's always available.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2005 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2008 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2009 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2010 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2014 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2017 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2018 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2022 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2028 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2031 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2035 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2041 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2044 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2045 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2046 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2050 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2053 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2058 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2061 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2062 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2064 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2065 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2069 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2075 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2081 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2084 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2088 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2091 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2092 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2094 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2098 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2101 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2102 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2103 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2107 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2110 things if CDPATH is set.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2114 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2120 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2123 seems to make sense for the transition.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2127 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2130 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2135 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2138 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2139 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2143 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2146 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2150 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2153 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2154 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2155 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2156 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2160 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2166 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2169 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2170 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2171 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2172 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2173 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2174 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2175 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2176 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2177 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2178 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2183 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2186 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2187 * README: mention doc/v2
2188 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2189 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2193 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2195 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2196 be using this script RSN.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2200 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2203 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2204 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2205 more than 1 init script.
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2209 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2212 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2216 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Changed perl version detection.
2219 * Changed call to find.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2223 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2226 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2228 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2233 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * Really include dh_installpam.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2239 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2242 * Wrote man page for same.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2246 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2249 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2250 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2255 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2262 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2265 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2266 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2267 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2268 x bit was being set!
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2272 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2275 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2276 well. (Closes: 38900)
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2280 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2283 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2284 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2288 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2294 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2301 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2307 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2310 help from Julian Gilbey.
2311 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2312 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2313 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2314 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2315 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2316 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2317 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2322 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2328 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2335 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2341 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2347 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2350 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2354 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2357 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2361 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2364 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2368 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2374 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2377 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2381 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2387 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2393 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2396 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2397 may be deleted. (#35845)
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2401 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * Various man page enhancements.
2404 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2409 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2412 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2413 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2417 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2420 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2421 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2422 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2424 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2425 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2430 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2436 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Another very minor typo fix.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2442 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Very minor typo fix.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2448 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2451 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2452 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2456 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2462 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2465 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2466 variables properly (#34850).
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2470 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2476 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2479 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2480 (automatically generated by build process).
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2484 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2486 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2490 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2493 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2494 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2496 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2500 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2503 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2507 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * README: minor typo fix.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2513 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2516 leave it at that. :-)
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2520 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2526 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2532 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2535 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2536 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2537 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2541 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2544 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2548 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2551 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2555 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2558 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2559 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2560 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2561 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2565 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2568 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2569 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2570 Craig Small for spotting this.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2574 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2577 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2578 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2582 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2588 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2591 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2595 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2597 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2598 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2599 working on the last version of debhelper.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2603 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2606 being made. (#23255)
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2610 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2616 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2619 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2623 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2626 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2627 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2628 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2629 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2633 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2636 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2637 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2638 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2639 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2641 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2642 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2644 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2649 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2655 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2661 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2664 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2665 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2666 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2667 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2668 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2669 suidregister actually supports it.
2670 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2671 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2675 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2682 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2685 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2686 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2687 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2688 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2689 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2690 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2691 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2695 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2697 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2698 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2702 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2705 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2706 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2707 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2708 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2712 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2715 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2717 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2718 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2719 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2720 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2721 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2722 effect, either. (#30118)
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2726 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2732 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2735 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2736 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2740 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2746 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2749 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2750 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2751 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2752 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2756 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2759 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2760 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2764 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2770 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2773 packages, painlessly.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2777 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2783 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2789 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2795 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * The perl conversion is complete.
2799 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2801 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2802 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2803 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2808 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2811 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2812 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2813 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2817 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2820 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2822 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2824 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2825 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2829 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2832 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2833 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2837 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2843 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2846 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2847 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2848 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2849 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2850 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2854 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2857 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2858 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2859 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2860 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2864 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2867 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2871 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2874 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2875 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2876 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2877 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2878 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2879 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2880 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2881 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2885 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2891 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2894 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2895 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2896 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2901 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2904 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2908 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2911 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2915 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2918 sections of shared libraries.
2919 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2920 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2921 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2922 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2923 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2924 things you don't want them to.
2925 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2926 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2930 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2933 shared libraries. (#26414)
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2937 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2939 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2940 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2941 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2942 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2946 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2950 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2952 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2953 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2954 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2955 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2956 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2960 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2963 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2967 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2970 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2971 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2976 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2979 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2983 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2986 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2987 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2988 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2989 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2990 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2992 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2993 remove debian/files properly.
2994 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2995 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2996 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2997 * Removed bogus menu file.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3001 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3004 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3008 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3011 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3012 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3013 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3014 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3015 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3016 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3020 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3023 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3024 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3025 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3026 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3030 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3037 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3040 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3041 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3043 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3044 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3045 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3046 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3047 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3048 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3052 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3055 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3056 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3057 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3058 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3059 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3060 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3061 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3062 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3063 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3064 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3065 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3066 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3067 passed any switches.
3068 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3072 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3075 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3076 at all for a long while.
3077 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3078 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3079 large chunks in the process.
3080 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3081 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3082 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3087 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3090 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3092 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3097 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3100 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3101 that don't always have the same files in them.
3102 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3103 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3104 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3108 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3112 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3113 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3114 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3115 updating 27 man pages.
3116 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3117 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3118 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3119 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3120 programs act on. (#25247)
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3124 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3128 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3129 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3130 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3131 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3132 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3133 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3138 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3145 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3152 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3155 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3159 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3165 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3168 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3169 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3170 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3171 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3172 package by accident.
3173 * Is version 1.0 next?
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3177 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3180 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3181 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3185 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3188 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3189 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3190 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3191 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3192 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3194 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3199 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3202 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3203 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3207 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3210 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3214 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3217 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3218 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3223 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3229 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3232 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3233 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3238 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3244 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3247 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3248 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3249 past week. Thanks, guys!
3251 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3252 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3253 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3254 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3255 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3256 would do in the same situation.
3257 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3258 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3260 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3262 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3263 permissions changed.
3264 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3265 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3266 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3267 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3268 files are treated identically.
3269 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3270 * Minor man page fixes.
3271 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3272 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3273 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3277 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3280 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3281 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3282 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3283 use -X multiple times, too.
3284 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3285 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3289 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3292 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3293 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3297 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3300 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3304 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3307 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3308 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3309 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3310 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3311 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3312 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3313 shape if you're starting a new package.
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3317 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3320 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3324 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3327 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3328 because of missing symlinks.
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3332 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3338 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3341 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3342 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3343 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3344 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3345 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3347 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3348 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3352 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3354 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3355 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3356 to be changed after the fact :-)
3357 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3361 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3364 no version string after the -V.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3368 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3370 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3371 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3376 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3379 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3383 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3386 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3387 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3388 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3389 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3390 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3391 I always welcome corrections!
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3395 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3401 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3404 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3405 * Documented this new switch.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3409 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3412 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3413 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3414 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3415 no packages use the old behavior.
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3419 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3422 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3423 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3427 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3430 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3434 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3440 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3443 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3447 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3450 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3451 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3452 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3456 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3462 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3465 into the source package by accident.
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3469 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3472 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3473 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3474 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3475 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3476 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3477 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3482 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3486 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3487 inspired to implement some of it.
3488 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3492 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3495 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3499 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3502 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3503 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3507 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3510 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3511 have done.) (#17598)
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3515 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3521 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3527 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3530 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3534 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3537 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3538 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3542 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3545 argument processor in perl.
3546 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3547 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3548 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3549 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3553 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3556 type directories. (#16933)
3557 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3558 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3559 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3560 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3561 are supported. (#16935)
3562 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3567 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3570 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3574 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3578 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3579 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3580 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3581 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3582 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3583 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3587 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3590 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3591 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3593 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3594 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3595 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3596 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3597 a given package, or -i or -a.
3598 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3599 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3600 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3601 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3602 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3603 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3604 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3605 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3606 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3608 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3609 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3610 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3614 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3617 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3618 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3623 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3626 does not have a section.
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3630 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3633 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3634 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3635 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3639 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Fixed typo #16215.
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3645 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3648 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3649 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3650 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3651 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3652 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3657 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3660 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3661 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3662 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3667 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3673 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3679 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3682 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3683 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3684 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3685 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3686 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3687 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3691 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3697 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3700 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3704 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3707 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3708 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3709 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3713 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3716 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3720 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3726 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3729 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3733 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3736 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3740 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3746 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3749 postinst, postrm, etc.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3753 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3759 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3762 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3763 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3764 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3765 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3766 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3770 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3773 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3774 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3778 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3781 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3785 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3788 installing package files into.
3789 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3794 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3798 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3802 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3808 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3811 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3815 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3818 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3819 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3820 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3821 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3825 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3827 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3828 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3829 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3830 multiple binary packages.
3831 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3832 should rebuild them with this version.
3833 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3837 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3840 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3844 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3847 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3851 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3854 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3855 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3856 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3857 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3858 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3859 debian/README.debian.
3860 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3861 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3862 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3863 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3864 in a few situations.)
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3868 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3874 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3880 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3883 * Fixed several man pages.
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3887 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3890 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3891 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3895 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3898 is ready for general use.
3899 * Added man pages for all commands.
3900 * Multiple binary package support.
3901 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3902 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3903 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3905 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3906 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3907 auto-installed as parameters.
3908 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3910 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3913 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3914 the package build directory it is to act on.
3915 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3916 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3917 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3921 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3923 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3924 ready to replace debstd.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400