1 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
4 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
5 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
6 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
8 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
10 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
11 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
12 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
16 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
19 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
24 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
26 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
27 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
28 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
29 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
34 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
40 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
46 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
49 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
50 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
51 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
52 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
53 associated -dbg packages.
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
57 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
60 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
64 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
67 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
71 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
74 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
78 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
81 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
86 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
88 * Typo. Closes: #207999
89 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
93 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
96 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
101 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
104 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
108 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
112 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
113 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
114 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
115 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
116 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
117 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
118 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
119 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
120 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
121 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
125 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
128 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
133 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
135 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
136 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
137 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
141 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
144 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
145 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
150 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
153 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
157 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
160 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
164 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
167 out section number. Closes: #204731
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
171 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
178 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
184 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
190 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Typo, Closes: #203907
193 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
194 removal. Closes: #204286
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
198 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
200 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
201 renaming. Closes: #203548
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
205 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
208 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
209 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
213 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
219 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
225 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
231 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
234 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
235 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
236 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
240 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
243 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
244 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
248 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
254 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
261 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
264 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
269 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
272 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
276 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
279 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
281 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
282 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
286 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
289 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
294 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
297 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
301 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
307 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
309 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
313 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
316 it break hard links (see #188663).
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
320 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
323 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
327 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
333 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
337 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
338 debconf-mergetemplates
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
342 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
345 pod2man. Closes: #184013
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
349 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
352 * Typo, Closes: #183267
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
356 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
359 * Update debhelper(1).
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
363 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
365 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
366 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
367 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
368 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
369 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
370 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
374 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
376 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
377 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
378 the shell. Closes: #178524
379 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
383 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
385 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
386 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
390 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
393 undocumented.7 links anymore.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
397 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
399 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
400 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
401 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
402 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
403 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
408 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
411 files from installation.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
415 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
418 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
419 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
423 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
426 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
430 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
433 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
437 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
443 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
449 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
453 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
454 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
456 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
460 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
463 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
464 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
465 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
466 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
470 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
472 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
473 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
477 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
480 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
481 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
485 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
489 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
494 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
500 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
504 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
505 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
506 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
511 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
514 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
515 practice. Closes: #163303
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
519 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
521 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
525 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
532 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
534 * The "reverse hangover" release.
535 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
537 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
538 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
539 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
540 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
541 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
545 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
548 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
553 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
559 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
566 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
569 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
574 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
580 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
586 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
592 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
599 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
602 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
603 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
604 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
605 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
610 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Typo, Closes: #155323
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
616 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
623 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
626 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
627 * Removed dh_installxaw.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
631 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
634 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
635 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
636 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
637 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
638 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
642 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
645 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
647 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
652 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
654 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
655 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
659 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
662 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
663 right thing. Closes: #150644
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
667 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
674 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
676 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
681 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
684 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
685 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
690 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
696 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
699 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
703 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
706 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
707 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
712 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
715 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
719 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
725 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
728 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
729 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
733 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
739 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Removing perl warning message.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
745 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
748 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
749 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
750 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
751 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
752 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
753 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
754 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
755 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
759 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
765 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
772 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
775 debconf-mergetemplate.
776 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
777 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
781 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
784 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
785 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
786 dh_install, which ...
787 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
788 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
789 mess, as it uses debian/install.
790 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
791 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
792 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
793 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
794 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
795 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
796 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
797 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
798 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
799 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
800 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
802 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
803 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
804 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
805 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
806 course there's -X ..)
807 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
808 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
809 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
811 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
812 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
813 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
814 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
815 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
820 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
826 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Typo, Closes: #139176
829 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
833 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
839 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
845 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
851 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
857 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
860 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
861 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
862 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
863 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
865 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
866 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
870 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
872 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
876 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Typo, Closes: #132454
879 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
883 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
886 upset. Closes: #131322
888 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
890 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
893 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
894 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
895 line, as well as in debian/rules.
896 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
897 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
898 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
899 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
900 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
901 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
902 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
903 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
904 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
905 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
906 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
907 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
909 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
913 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
916 - Better indenting of generated code.
917 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
921 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
925 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
926 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
927 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
928 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
929 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
930 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
931 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
935 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
938 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
942 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
945 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
946 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
947 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
948 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
949 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
950 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
951 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
952 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
953 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
954 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
955 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
956 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
957 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
958 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
959 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
964 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
970 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
973 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
974 * fixed dh_testdir man page
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
978 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Typo, Closes: #122679
981 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
982 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
986 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
992 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
995 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
996 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
997 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
998 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
999 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1004 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1010 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1013 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1017 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1020 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1025 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1031 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1034 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1038 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1044 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1048 Also some indentation fixes.
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1052 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1055 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1056 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1057 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1058 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1059 Closes: #106514, #85520
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1063 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1069 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1075 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1081 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1087 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1093 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1096 change it in debhelper v4..
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1100 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1106 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1109 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1113 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1116 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1120 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1126 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1129 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1130 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1131 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1132 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1133 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1134 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1135 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1136 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1137 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1138 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1139 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1140 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1144 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1147 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1151 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1158 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1161 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1162 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1163 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1164 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1165 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1166 program those options go to. So, for example,
1167 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1168 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1169 something complex. Closes: #89311
1170 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1174 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1177 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1178 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1179 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1183 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1186 through loop. Closes: #98598
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1190 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Missing semi-colon.
1193 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1194 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1198 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1201 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1202 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1203 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1207 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1210 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1211 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1215 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1218 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1222 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1225 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1226 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1230 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1233 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1234 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1235 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1239 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1242 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1243 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1244 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1248 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1251 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1255 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1261 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1267 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1273 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1279 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1282 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1286 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1289 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1290 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1291 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1292 followed. Closes: #85483
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1296 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1298 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1299 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1300 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1304 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1307 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1308 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1309 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1310 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1311 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1312 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1313 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1314 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1315 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1316 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1317 Closes: #88464, #77743
1318 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1319 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1320 us to deal with that gracefully.
1321 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1323 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1324 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1325 a while, Closes: #51225
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1329 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1335 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1338 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1342 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1346 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1351 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1354 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1355 don't make packlist files.
1356 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1357 debhelper coding standards.
1358 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1359 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1363 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1366 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1370 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1373 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1374 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1375 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1376 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1377 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1378 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1379 but is mildly deprecated.
1380 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1381 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1382 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1383 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1384 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1385 switching to statoverrides..
1386 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1387 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1388 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1389 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1390 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1391 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1393 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1394 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1395 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1396 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1397 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1398 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1399 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1400 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1401 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1403 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1404 variable names, pod man pages).
1405 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1406 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1407 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1408 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1409 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1410 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1411 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1415 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1421 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1428 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1431 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1435 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1437 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1438 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1439 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1443 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1445 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1446 they were previously ignored.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1450 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1452 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1453 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1457 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1459 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1460 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1461 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1465 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1467 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1471 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1473 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1474 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1478 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1480 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1481 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1482 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1483 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1484 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1485 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1486 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1487 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1488 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1489 it is an obsolete program.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1493 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1495 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1499 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1503 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1505 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1509 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1511 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1513 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1515 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1519 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1525 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * typo: Closes, #78567
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1531 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1537 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1543 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1546 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1547 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1548 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1549 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1550 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1554 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1557 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1562 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1565 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1566 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1567 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1568 backwards-compatability.
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1572 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1575 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1576 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1577 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1578 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1579 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1580 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1582 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1583 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1584 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1586 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1588 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1589 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1590 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1591 should now be raised to severity important..
1592 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1593 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1597 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1600 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1605 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1611 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1617 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1623 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1630 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1633 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1634 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1635 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1636 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1640 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1646 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1649 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1650 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1651 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1652 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1653 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1654 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1659 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1662 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1666 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1672 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1675 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1680 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1683 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1684 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1685 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1686 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1690 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1694 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1697 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1700 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1701 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1704 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1706 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1707 the TODO entry about it.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1711 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1718 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1721 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1722 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1726 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1729 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1730 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1731 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1732 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1736 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1742 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1749 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1752 (this appears to be logal).
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1756 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1759 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1760 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1761 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1762 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1766 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1772 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1775 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1776 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1777 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1778 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1782 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1788 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1791 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1795 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1802 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1805 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1806 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1807 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1812 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1819 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1825 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1828 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1829 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1830 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1831 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1832 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1833 notice until v2 is complete.
1834 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1835 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1836 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1837 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1838 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1839 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1841 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1842 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1843 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1844 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1848 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1854 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1861 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1864 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1868 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1875 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1878 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1879 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1880 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1881 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1886 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1889 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1890 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1891 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1896 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1899 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1900 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1904 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1907 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1911 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1914 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1918 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1925 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1928 depend on the build and install targets.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1932 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1935 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1939 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1946 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1952 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1958 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1961 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1962 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1963 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1964 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1965 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1966 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1968 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1969 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1970 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1971 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1972 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1973 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1974 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1978 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1984 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1990 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1993 right place. Closes: #55065
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1997 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2004 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2007 * Copyright date updates.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2011 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2014 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2019 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2025 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2032 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2038 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2044 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2050 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2053 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2054 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2055 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2056 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2057 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2058 bits until all files have been registered.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2062 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_installmanpages:
2065 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2066 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2067 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2068 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2069 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2070 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2071 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2072 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2073 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2074 otherwise change the result at all.
2076 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2077 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2078 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2079 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2080 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2085 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2091 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2094 act on files that don't exist.
2095 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2096 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2097 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2099 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2100 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2101 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2102 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2106 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2112 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2118 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2121 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2125 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2128 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2130 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2131 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2132 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2136 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2139 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2140 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2141 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2142 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2143 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2144 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2145 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2147 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2149 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2153 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2160 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2166 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2172 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2175 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2179 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2185 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2191 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2194 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2195 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2196 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2197 I made some changes, though:
2198 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2199 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2200 that is a clear violation of policy.
2201 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2202 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2203 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2204 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2205 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2206 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2207 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2208 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2209 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2211 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2215 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2221 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2224 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2228 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2231 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2232 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2237 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2243 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2250 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2253 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2254 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2255 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2256 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2257 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2258 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2259 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2263 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2269 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2273 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2274 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2278 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2284 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2287 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2291 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2294 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2295 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2299 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2301 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2306 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2310 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2314 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2317 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2318 for the dependancies to be generated.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2322 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2325 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2329 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2332 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2333 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2334 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2339 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2342 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2343 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2347 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2353 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2359 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2362 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2366 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2372 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2375 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2376 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2377 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2378 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2379 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2380 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2381 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2382 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2383 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2384 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2385 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2386 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2390 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2393 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2394 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2396 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2397 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2398 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2399 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2400 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2401 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2403 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2404 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2408 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2411 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2415 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2422 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2425 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2430 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2433 for building debhelper.
2434 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2438 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2445 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2448 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2452 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2455 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2456 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2457 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2458 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2459 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2460 it's always available.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2464 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2467 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2468 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2469 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2473 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2476 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2477 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2481 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2487 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2490 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2494 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2500 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2503 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2504 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2505 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2509 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2512 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2517 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2520 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2521 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2523 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2524 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2528 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2534 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2540 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2543 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2547 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2550 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2551 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2553 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2557 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2560 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2561 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2562 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2566 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2569 things if CDPATH is set.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2573 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2579 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2582 seems to make sense for the transition.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2586 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2589 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2594 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2597 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2598 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2602 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2605 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2609 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2612 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2613 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2614 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2615 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2619 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2625 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2628 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2629 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2630 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2631 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2632 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2633 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2634 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2635 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2636 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2637 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2642 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2645 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2646 * README: mention doc/v2
2647 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2648 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2652 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2654 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2655 be using this script RSN.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2659 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2662 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2663 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2664 more than 1 init script.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2668 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2671 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2675 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Changed perl version detection.
2678 * Changed call to find.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2682 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2685 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2687 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2692 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Really include dh_installpam.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2698 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2701 * Wrote man page for same.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2705 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2708 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2709 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2714 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2721 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2724 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2725 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2726 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2727 x bit was being set!
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2731 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2734 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2735 well. (Closes: 38900)
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2739 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2742 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2743 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2747 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2753 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2760 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2766 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2769 help from Julian Gilbey.
2770 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2771 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2772 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2773 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2774 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2775 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2776 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2781 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2787 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2794 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2800 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2806 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2809 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2813 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2816 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2820 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2823 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2827 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2833 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2836 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2840 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2846 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2852 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2855 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2856 may be deleted. (#35845)
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2860 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Various man page enhancements.
2863 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2868 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2871 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2872 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2876 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2879 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2880 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2881 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2883 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2884 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2889 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2895 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * Another very minor typo fix.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2901 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * Very minor typo fix.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2907 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2910 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2911 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2915 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2921 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2924 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2925 variables properly (#34850).
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2929 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2935 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2938 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2939 (automatically generated by build process).
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2943 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2945 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2949 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2952 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2953 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2955 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2959 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2962 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2966 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * README: minor typo fix.
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2972 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2975 leave it at that. :-)
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2979 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2985 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2991 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2994 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2995 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2996 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3000 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3003 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3007 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3010 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3014 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3017 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3018 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3019 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3020 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3024 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3027 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3028 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3029 Craig Small for spotting this.
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3033 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3036 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3037 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3041 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3047 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3050 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3054 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3056 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3057 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3058 working on the last version of debhelper.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3062 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3065 being made. (#23255)
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3069 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3075 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3078 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3082 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3085 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3086 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3087 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3088 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3092 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3095 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3096 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3097 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3098 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3100 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3101 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3103 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3108 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3114 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3120 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3123 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3124 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3125 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3126 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3127 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3128 suidregister actually supports it.
3129 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3130 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3134 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3141 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3144 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3145 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3146 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3147 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3148 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3149 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3150 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3154 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3156 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3157 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3161 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3164 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3165 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3166 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3167 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3171 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3174 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3176 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3177 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3178 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3179 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3180 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3181 effect, either. (#30118)
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3185 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3191 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3194 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3195 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3199 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3205 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3208 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3209 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3210 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3211 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3215 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3218 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3219 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3223 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3229 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3232 packages, painlessly.
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3236 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3242 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3248 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3254 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * The perl conversion is complete.
3258 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3260 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3261 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3262 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3267 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3270 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3271 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3272 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3276 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3279 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3281 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3283 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3284 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3288 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3291 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3292 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3296 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3302 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3305 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3306 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3307 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3308 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3309 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3313 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3316 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3317 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3318 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3319 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3323 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3326 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3330 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3333 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3334 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3335 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3336 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3337 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3338 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3339 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3340 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3344 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3350 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3353 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3354 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3355 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3360 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3363 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3367 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3370 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3374 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3377 sections of shared libraries.
3378 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3379 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3380 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3381 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3382 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3383 things you don't want them to.
3384 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3385 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3389 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3392 shared libraries. (#26414)
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3396 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3398 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3399 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3400 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3401 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3405 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3409 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3411 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3412 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3413 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3414 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3415 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3419 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3422 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3426 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3429 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3430 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3435 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3438 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3442 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3445 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3446 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3447 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3448 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3449 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3451 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3452 remove debian/files properly.
3453 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3454 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3455 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3456 * Removed bogus menu file.
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3460 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3463 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3467 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3470 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3471 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3472 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3473 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3474 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3475 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3479 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3482 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3483 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3484 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3485 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3489 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3496 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3499 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3500 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3502 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3503 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3504 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3505 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3506 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3507 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3511 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3514 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3515 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3516 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3517 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3518 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3519 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3520 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3521 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3522 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3523 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3524 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3525 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3526 passed any switches.
3527 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3531 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3534 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3535 at all for a long while.
3536 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3537 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3538 large chunks in the process.
3539 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3540 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3541 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3546 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3549 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3551 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3556 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3559 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3560 that don't always have the same files in them.
3561 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3562 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3563 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3567 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3571 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3572 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3573 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3574 updating 27 man pages.
3575 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3576 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3577 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3578 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3579 programs act on. (#25247)
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3583 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3587 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3588 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3589 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3590 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3591 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3592 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3597 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3604 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3611 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3614 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3618 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3624 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3627 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3628 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3629 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3630 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3631 package by accident.
3632 * Is version 1.0 next?
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3636 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3639 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3640 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3644 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3647 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3648 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3649 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3650 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3651 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3653 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3658 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3661 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3662 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3666 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3669 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3673 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3676 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3677 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3682 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3688 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3691 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3692 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3697 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3703 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3706 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3707 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3708 past week. Thanks, guys!
3710 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3711 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3712 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3713 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3714 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3715 would do in the same situation.
3716 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3717 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3719 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3721 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3722 permissions changed.
3723 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3724 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3725 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3726 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3727 files are treated identically.
3728 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3729 * Minor man page fixes.
3730 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3731 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3732 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3736 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3739 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3740 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3741 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3742 use -X multiple times, too.
3743 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3744 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3748 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3751 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3752 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3756 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3759 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3763 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3766 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3767 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3768 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3769 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3770 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3771 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3772 shape if you're starting a new package.
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3776 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3779 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3783 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3786 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3787 because of missing symlinks.
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3791 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3797 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3800 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3801 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3802 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3803 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3804 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3806 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3807 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3811 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3813 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3814 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3815 to be changed after the fact :-)
3816 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3820 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3822 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3823 no version string after the -V.
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3827 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3829 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3830 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3835 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3838 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3842 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3845 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3846 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3847 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3848 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3849 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3850 I always welcome corrections!
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3854 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3860 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3863 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3864 * Documented this new switch.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3868 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3871 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3872 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3873 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3874 no packages use the old behavior.
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3878 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3881 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3882 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3886 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3889 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3893 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3899 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3902 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3906 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3909 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3910 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3911 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3915 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3921 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3924 into the source package by accident.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3928 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3931 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3932 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3933 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3934 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3935 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3936 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3941 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3945 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3946 inspired to implement some of it.
3947 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3951 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3954 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3958 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3961 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3962 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3966 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3969 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3970 have done.) (#17598)
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3974 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3980 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3986 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3989 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3993 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3996 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3997 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4001 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4004 argument processor in perl.
4005 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4006 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4007 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4008 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4012 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4015 type directories. (#16933)
4016 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4017 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4018 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4019 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4020 are supported. (#16935)
4021 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4026 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4029 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4033 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4037 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4038 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4039 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4040 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4041 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4042 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4046 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4049 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4050 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4052 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4053 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4054 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4055 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4056 a given package, or -i or -a.
4057 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4058 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4059 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4060 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4061 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4062 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4063 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4064 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4065 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4067 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4068 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4069 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4073 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4076 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4077 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4082 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4084 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4085 does not have a section.
4087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4089 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4091 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4092 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4093 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4094 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4098 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * Fixed typo #16215.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4104 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4107 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4108 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4109 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4110 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4111 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4116 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4119 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4120 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4121 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4126 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4132 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4138 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4141 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4142 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4143 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4144 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4145 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4146 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4150 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4156 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4159 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4163 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4166 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4167 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4168 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4172 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4175 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4179 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4185 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4188 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4192 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4195 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4199 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4205 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4208 postinst, postrm, etc.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4212 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4218 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4221 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4222 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4223 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4224 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4225 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4229 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4232 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4233 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4237 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4240 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4244 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4247 installing package files into.
4248 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4253 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4255 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4257 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4261 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4267 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4270 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4274 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4277 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4278 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4279 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4280 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4284 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4286 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4287 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4288 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4289 multiple binary packages.
4290 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4291 should rebuild them with this version.
4292 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4296 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4299 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4303 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4306 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4310 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4313 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4314 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4315 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4316 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4317 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4318 debian/README.debian.
4319 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4320 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4321 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4322 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4323 in a few situations.)
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4327 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4333 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4339 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4342 * Fixed several man pages.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4346 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4349 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4350 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4354 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4357 is ready for general use.
4358 * Added man pages for all commands.
4359 * Multiple binary package support.
4360 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4361 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4362 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4364 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4365 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4366 auto-installed as parameters.
4367 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4369 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4372 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4373 the package build directory it is to act on.
4374 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4375 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4376 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4380 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4382 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4383 ready to replace debstd.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400