r75: Initial Import

diff --git a/PROGRAMMING b/PROGRAMMING
index c290c34d63504242f9ee1cceacf7bf1da2cee405..22e015aff2dd8eb4e81b282180df220513519823 100644 (file)
--- a/PROGRAMMING
+++ b/PROGRAMMING
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ merge these modifications into the actual postinst scripts.
 There are always exceptions. Just ask me.
 
 Introducing dh_lib:
--------------------
+------------------
 
 All debhelper programs use the dh_lib library (actually it's a shell script)
 to parse their arguments and set some useful variables. It's not mandatory

diff --git a/README b/README
index ae0e53a1d08fd4533aee4286b87d4c0b053d8383..f821e8c0ff200c1461d81d7feaf449e80dc3c6f4 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ that use debhelper commands extensively. See /usr/doc/debhelper/examples/ .
 These files are also useful as they give one good order you can run the 
 various debhelper scripts in (though other variations are possible).
 
+Starting a new package:
+----------------------
+
+You can just use the example rules files and do the rest of the new package
+set up by hand, or you could try the new dh-make package, which contains a
+"dh_make" command that is similar to debmake, and tries to automate the
+process.
 
 Converting from debstd to debhelper:
 -----------------------------------
@@ -59,7 +66,7 @@ commands. So if you have postinst, postrm, etc scripts, add a line reading
 
 Once you think it's all set up properly, do a test build of your package. If 
 it works ok, I recommend that you compare the new package and the old 
-debstd-generated package very closely. Pay special attention to the postint, 
+debstd-generated package very closely. Pay special attention to the postinst, 
 postrm, etc scripts.
 
 

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index a6646b11f522d262c23a123d70589b4c39bbbf20..064dcbf0f18fcd4eb62d5c0d588204aa9a67bcb0 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -3,28 +3,28 @@
     debmake (wishlist bug #17043). I just never saw the point of that file..
   - Make dh_movefiles remove emptied directories after it's moved all the
     files out of them (wishlist bug #17111).
-* dh_fixperms: allow listing of files not to be touched (diffucult).
+* dh_fixperms: allow listing of files not to be touched (difficult).
 * add a dh_debstd, which mimics debstd, but uses debhelper tools internally.
-  Note thatthe idea here is not just another debstd. This program will have
+  Note that the idea here is not just another debstd. This program will have
   a -v switch, that lists all the other debhelper commands it needs to run to
   do what debstd had to do. The intent is to make it easy to switch from
   debstd to debhelper.
 * dh_compress: add --exclude "*.conf" type-thingy, since that's the change
-  you most often want to make to what it does, and a debian/conpress file is
+  you most often want to make to what it does, and a debian/compress file is
   overkill in those cases.
-* info support for debhelper (currently implmented, but I hate how I did it,
+* info support for debhelper (currently implemented, but I hate how I did it,
   so it's not in the package.) (wishlist bug #15717)
 * enhance dh_installmanpages so it associates binaries and man pages and
   installs the man pages into the correct areas to suit the binaries they
   document. I may need to make this only happen when a switch is given, to
-  preserve backward compatability.
+  preserve backward compatibility.
 * maybe make dh_installmanpages look at the .TH line of man pages whose
   filenames end in .man, to figure out what section they go it. This would
-  require a switch to turn on, for backwards compatability.
+  require a switch to turn on, for backwards compatibility.
 * All debhelper programs should be checked that they output files with the
   correct permissions no matter what the umask is set to. Currently, only
   those programs that run after dh_fixperms have been so checked. (Checking
   the rest is low priority, since dh_fixperms fixes any incorrect permissions
   they might have; still it would be nice to check them too, just to make
   debhelper more flexible.) One easy fix is to add umask 022 to dh_lib,
-  however, there may be unforseen ramifications of such a change.
+  however, there may be unforeseen ramifications of such a change.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 567dbb9f9999d3f2de81a9979b949e57c8a9d9b8..1ee3825253b8676888c887a2cf81d9772a184c36 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
+    no version string after the -V.
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>  Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
+
 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
 
   * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.

diff --git a/examples/rules.indep b/examples/rules.indep
index 2e74e85226d1923d46922e5d9904c46dd4f609d7..7ba839ad99bed395168dd244673fe66ea5ae3ae1 100755 (executable)
--- a/examples/rules.indep
+++ b/examples/rules.indep
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 # Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper. GNU copyright 1997 by Joey Hess.
-# This version is for packages that are architecure independant.
+# This version is for packages that are architecture independent.
 
 # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
 #export DH_VERBOSE=1

diff --git a/examples/rules.multi b/examples/rules.multi
index 1cfeb4251db271412cad5fd6ed4405745bf854a3..33a1a4ac4b5c001fb59235ed39e6c5b775cef2f1 100755 (executable)
--- a/examples/rules.multi
+++ b/examples/rules.multi
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 # Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper. GNU copyright 1997 by Joey Hess.
 # This version is for a hypothetical package that builds an
-# architecture-dependant package, as well as an architecture-independant
+# architecture-dependant package, as well as an architecture-independent
 # package.
 
 # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.