1 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
4 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
6 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
7 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
11 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
13 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
14 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
19 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
22 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
26 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
32 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
34 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
38 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
41 it break hard links (see #188663).
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
45 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
48 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
52 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
58 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
62 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
63 debconf-mergetemplates
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
67 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
70 pod2man. Closes: #184013
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
74 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
77 * Typo, Closes: #183267
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
81 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
84 * Update debhelper(1).
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
88 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
90 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
91 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
92 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
93 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
94 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
95 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
99 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
101 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
102 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
103 the shell. Closes: #178524
104 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
108 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
111 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
115 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
118 undocumented.7 links anymore.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
122 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
124 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
125 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
126 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
127 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
128 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
133 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
136 files from installation.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
140 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
143 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
144 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
148 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
151 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
155 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
158 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
162 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
168 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
174 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
178 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
179 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
181 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
185 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
188 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
189 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
190 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
191 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
195 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
197 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
198 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
202 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
204 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
205 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
206 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
210 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
214 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
219 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
225 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
229 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
230 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
231 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
236 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
239 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
240 practice. Closes: #163303
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
244 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
250 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
257 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
259 * The "reverse hangover" release.
260 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
262 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
263 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
264 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
265 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
266 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
270 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
273 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
278 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
284 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
291 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
294 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
299 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
305 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
311 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
317 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
324 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
327 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
328 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
329 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
330 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
335 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Typo, Closes: #155323
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
341 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
343 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
348 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
351 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
352 * Removed dh_installxaw.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
356 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
359 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
360 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
361 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
362 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
363 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
367 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
370 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
372 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
377 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
379 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
380 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
384 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
387 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
388 right thing. Closes: #150644
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
392 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
399 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
401 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
406 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
409 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
410 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
415 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
421 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
424 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
428 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
431 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
432 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
437 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
440 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
444 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
450 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
453 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
454 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
458 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
460 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
464 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
466 * Removing perl warning message.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
470 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
473 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
474 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
475 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
476 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
477 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
478 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
479 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
480 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
484 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
490 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
497 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
500 debconf-mergetemplate.
501 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
502 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
506 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
508 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
509 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
510 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
511 dh_install, which ...
512 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
513 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
514 mess, as it uses debian/install.
515 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
516 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
517 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
518 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
519 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
520 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
521 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
522 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
523 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
524 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
525 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
527 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
528 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
529 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
530 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
531 course there's -X ..)
532 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
533 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
534 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
536 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
537 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
538 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
539 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
540 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
545 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
551 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
553 * Typo, Closes: #139176
554 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
558 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
564 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
570 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
576 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
582 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
585 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
586 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
587 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
588 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
590 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
591 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
595 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
601 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
603 * Typo, Closes: #132454
604 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
608 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
611 upset. Closes: #131322
613 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
615 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
618 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
619 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
620 line, as well as in debian/rules.
621 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
622 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
623 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
624 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
625 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
626 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
627 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
628 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
629 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
630 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
631 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
632 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
634 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
638 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
641 - Better indenting of generated code.
642 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
646 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
648 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
650 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
651 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
652 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
653 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
654 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
655 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
656 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
660 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
663 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
667 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
670 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
671 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
672 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
673 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
674 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
675 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
676 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
677 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
678 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
679 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
680 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
681 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
682 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
683 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
684 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
689 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
695 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
698 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
699 * fixed dh_testdir man page
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
703 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Typo, Closes: #122679
706 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
707 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
711 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
717 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
720 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
721 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
722 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
723 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
724 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
729 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
731 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
735 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
738 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
742 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
745 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
750 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Typo, Closes: #114135
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
756 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
759 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
763 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
769 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
773 Also some indentation fixes.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
777 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
780 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
781 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
782 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
783 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
784 Closes: #106514, #85520
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
788 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Typo, Closes: #104405
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
794 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
800 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
802 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
806 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
812 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
814 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
818 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
821 change it in debhelper v4..
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
825 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
831 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
834 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
838 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
841 is not essential. Closes: #100430
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
845 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
851 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
854 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
855 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
856 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
857 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
858 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
859 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
860 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
861 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
862 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
863 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
864 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
865 prefixed with ".debhelper")
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
869 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
872 look just like shared libs, but are not.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
876 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
883 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
886 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
887 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
888 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
889 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
890 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
891 program those options go to. So, for example,
892 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
893 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
894 something complex. Closes: #89311
895 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
899 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
902 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
903 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
904 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
908 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
911 through loop. Closes: #98598
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
915 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Missing semi-colon.
918 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
919 this (dh_* should be called, really).
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
923 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
926 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
927 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
928 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
932 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
935 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
936 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
940 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
943 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
947 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
950 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
951 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
955 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
958 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
959 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
960 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
964 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
967 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
968 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
969 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
973 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
976 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
980 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
986 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Typo, Closes: #92407
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
992 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
998 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1004 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1007 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1011 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1014 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1015 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1016 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1017 followed. Closes: #85483
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1021 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1023 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1024 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1025 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1029 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1032 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1033 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1034 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1035 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1036 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1037 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1038 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1039 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1040 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1041 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1042 Closes: #88464, #77743
1043 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1044 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1045 us to deal with that gracefully.
1046 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1048 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1049 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1050 a while, Closes: #51225
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1054 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1060 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1063 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1067 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1071 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1076 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1079 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1080 don't make packlist files.
1081 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1082 debhelper coding standards.
1083 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1084 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1088 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1091 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1095 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1098 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1099 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1100 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1101 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1102 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1103 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1104 but is mildly deprecated.
1105 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1106 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1107 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1108 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1109 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1110 switching to statoverrides..
1111 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1112 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1113 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1114 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1115 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1116 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1118 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1119 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1120 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1121 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1122 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1123 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1124 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1125 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1126 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1128 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1129 variable names, pod man pages).
1130 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1131 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1132 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1133 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1134 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1135 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1136 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1140 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1146 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1153 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1156 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1160 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1162 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1163 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1164 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1168 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1170 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1171 they were previously ignored.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1175 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1177 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1178 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1182 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1184 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1185 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1186 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1190 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1192 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1196 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1198 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1199 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1203 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1205 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1206 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1207 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1208 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1209 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1210 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1211 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1212 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1213 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1214 it is an obsolete program.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1218 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1220 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1224 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1228 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1230 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1234 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1236 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1238 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1240 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1244 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1250 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * typo: Closes, #78567
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1256 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1262 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1268 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1271 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1272 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1273 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1274 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1275 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1279 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1282 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1287 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1290 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1291 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1292 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1293 backwards-compatability.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1297 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1300 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1301 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1302 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1303 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1304 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1305 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1307 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1308 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1309 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1311 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1313 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1314 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1315 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1316 should now be raised to severity important..
1317 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1318 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1322 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1325 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1330 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1336 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1342 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1348 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1355 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1358 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1359 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1360 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1361 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1365 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1371 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1374 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1375 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1376 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1377 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1378 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1379 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1384 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1387 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1391 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1397 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1400 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1405 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1408 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1409 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1410 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1411 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1415 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1419 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1422 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1425 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1426 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1429 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1431 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1432 the TODO entry about it.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1436 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1443 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1446 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1447 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1451 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1454 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1455 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1456 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1457 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1461 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1467 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1474 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1477 (this appears to be logal).
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1481 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1484 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1485 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1486 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1487 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1491 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1500 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1501 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1502 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1503 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1507 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1513 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1516 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1520 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1527 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1530 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1531 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1532 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1537 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1544 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1550 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1553 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1554 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1555 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1556 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1557 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1558 notice until v2 is complete.
1559 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1560 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1561 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1562 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1563 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1564 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1566 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1567 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1568 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1569 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1573 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1579 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1586 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1589 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1593 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1600 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1603 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1604 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1605 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1606 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1611 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1614 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1615 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1616 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1621 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1624 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1625 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1629 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1632 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1636 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1639 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1643 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1650 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1653 depend on the build and install targets.
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1657 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1660 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1664 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1671 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1677 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1683 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1686 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1687 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1688 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1689 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1690 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1691 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1693 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1694 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1695 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1696 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1697 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1698 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1699 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1703 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1709 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1715 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1718 right place. Closes: #55065
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1722 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1729 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1732 * Copyright date updates.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1736 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1739 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1744 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1750 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1757 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1763 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1769 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1775 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1778 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1779 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1780 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1781 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1782 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1783 bits until all files have been registered.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1787 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installmanpages:
1790 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1791 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1792 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1793 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1794 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1795 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1796 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1797 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1798 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1799 otherwise change the result at all.
1801 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1802 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1803 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1804 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1805 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1810 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1816 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1819 act on files that don't exist.
1820 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1821 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1822 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1824 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1825 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1826 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1827 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1831 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1837 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1843 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1846 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1850 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1853 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1855 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1856 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1857 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1861 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1864 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1865 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1866 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1867 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1868 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1869 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1870 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1872 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1874 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1878 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1885 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1891 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1897 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1900 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1904 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1910 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1916 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1919 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1920 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1921 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1922 I made some changes, though:
1923 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1924 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1925 that is a clear violation of policy.
1926 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1927 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1928 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1929 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1930 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1931 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1932 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1933 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1934 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1936 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1940 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1946 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1949 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1953 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1956 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1957 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1962 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1968 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1975 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1978 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1979 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1980 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1981 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1982 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1983 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1984 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1988 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1994 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1998 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1999 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2003 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2009 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2012 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2019 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2020 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2024 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2026 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2031 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2035 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2039 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2042 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2043 for the dependancies to be generated.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2047 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2050 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2054 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2057 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2058 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2059 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2064 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2067 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2068 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2072 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2078 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2084 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2087 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2091 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2097 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2100 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2101 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2102 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2103 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2104 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2105 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2106 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2107 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2108 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2109 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2110 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2111 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2115 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2118 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2119 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2121 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2122 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2123 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2124 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2125 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2126 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2128 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2129 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2133 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2136 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2140 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2147 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2150 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2155 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2158 for building debhelper.
2159 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2163 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2170 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2173 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2177 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2180 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2181 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2182 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2183 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2184 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2185 it's always available.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2189 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2192 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2193 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2194 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2198 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2201 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2202 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2206 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2212 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2215 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2219 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2225 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2228 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2229 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2230 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2234 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2237 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2242 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2245 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2246 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2248 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2249 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2253 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2259 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2265 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2268 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2272 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2275 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2276 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2278 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2282 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2285 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2286 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2287 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2291 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2294 things if CDPATH is set.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2298 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2304 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2307 seems to make sense for the transition.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2311 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2314 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2319 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2322 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2323 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2327 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2330 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2334 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2337 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2338 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2339 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2340 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2344 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2350 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2353 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2354 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2355 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2356 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2357 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2358 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2359 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2360 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2361 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2362 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2367 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2370 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2371 * README: mention doc/v2
2372 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2373 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2377 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2379 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2380 be using this script RSN.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2384 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2387 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2388 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2389 more than 1 init script.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2393 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2396 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2400 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * Changed perl version detection.
2403 * Changed call to find.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2407 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2410 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2412 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2417 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Really include dh_installpam.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2423 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2426 * Wrote man page for same.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2430 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2433 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2434 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2439 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2446 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2449 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2450 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2451 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2452 x bit was being set!
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2456 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2459 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2460 well. (Closes: 38900)
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2464 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2467 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2468 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2472 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2478 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2485 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2491 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2494 help from Julian Gilbey.
2495 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2496 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2497 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2498 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2499 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2500 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2501 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2506 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2512 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2519 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2525 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2531 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2534 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2538 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2541 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2545 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2548 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2552 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2558 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2561 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2565 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2571 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2577 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2580 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2581 may be deleted. (#35845)
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2585 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Various man page enhancements.
2588 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2593 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2596 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2597 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2601 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2604 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2605 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2606 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2608 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2609 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2614 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2620 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Another very minor typo fix.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2626 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Very minor typo fix.
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2632 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2635 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2636 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2640 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2646 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2649 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2650 variables properly (#34850).
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2654 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2660 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2663 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2664 (automatically generated by build process).
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2668 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2670 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2674 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2677 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2678 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2680 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2684 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2687 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2691 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * README: minor typo fix.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2697 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2700 leave it at that. :-)
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2704 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2710 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2716 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2719 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2720 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2721 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2725 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2728 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2732 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2735 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2739 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2742 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2743 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2744 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2745 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2749 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2752 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2753 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2754 Craig Small for spotting this.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2758 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2761 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2762 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2766 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2772 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2775 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2779 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2781 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2782 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2783 working on the last version of debhelper.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2787 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2790 being made. (#23255)
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2794 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2800 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2803 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2807 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2810 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2811 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2812 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2813 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2817 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2820 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2821 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2822 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2823 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2825 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2826 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2828 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2833 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2839 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2845 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2848 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2849 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2850 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2851 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2852 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2853 suidregister actually supports it.
2854 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2855 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2859 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2866 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2869 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2870 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2871 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2872 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2873 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2874 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2875 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2879 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2881 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2882 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2886 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2889 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2890 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2891 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2892 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2896 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2899 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2901 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2902 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2903 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2904 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2905 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2906 effect, either. (#30118)
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2910 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2916 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2919 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2920 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2924 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2930 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2933 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2934 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2935 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2936 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2940 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2943 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2944 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2948 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2954 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2957 packages, painlessly.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2961 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2967 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2973 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2979 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * The perl conversion is complete.
2983 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2985 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2986 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2987 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2992 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2995 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2996 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2997 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3001 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3004 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3006 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3008 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3009 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3013 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3016 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3017 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3021 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3027 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3030 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3031 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3032 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3033 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3034 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3038 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3041 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3042 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3043 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3044 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3048 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3051 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3055 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3058 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3059 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3060 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3061 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3062 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3063 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3064 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3065 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3069 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3075 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3078 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3079 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3080 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3085 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3088 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3092 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3095 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3099 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3102 sections of shared libraries.
3103 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3104 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3105 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3106 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3107 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3108 things you don't want them to.
3109 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3110 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3114 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3117 shared libraries. (#26414)
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3121 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3123 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3124 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3125 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3126 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3130 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3134 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3136 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3137 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3138 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3139 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3140 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3144 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3147 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3151 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3154 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3155 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3160 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3163 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3167 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3170 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3171 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3172 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3173 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3174 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3176 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3177 remove debian/files properly.
3178 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3179 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3180 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3181 * Removed bogus menu file.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3185 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3188 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3192 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3195 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3196 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3197 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3198 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3199 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3200 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3204 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3207 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3208 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3209 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3210 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3214 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3221 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3224 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3225 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3227 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3228 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3229 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3230 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3231 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3232 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3236 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3239 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3240 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3241 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3242 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3243 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3244 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3245 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3246 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3247 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3248 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3249 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3250 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3251 passed any switches.
3252 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3256 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3259 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3260 at all for a long while.
3261 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3262 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3263 large chunks in the process.
3264 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3265 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3266 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3271 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3274 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3276 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3281 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3284 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3285 that don't always have the same files in them.
3286 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3287 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3288 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3292 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3296 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3297 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3298 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3299 updating 27 man pages.
3300 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3301 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3302 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3303 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3304 programs act on. (#25247)
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3308 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3312 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3313 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3314 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3315 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3316 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3317 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3322 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3329 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3336 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3339 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3343 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3349 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3352 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3353 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3354 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3355 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3356 package by accident.
3357 * Is version 1.0 next?
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3361 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3364 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3365 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3369 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3372 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3373 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3374 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3375 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3376 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3378 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3383 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3386 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3387 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3391 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3394 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3398 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3401 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3402 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3407 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3413 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3416 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3417 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3422 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3428 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3431 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3432 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3433 past week. Thanks, guys!
3435 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3436 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3437 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3438 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3439 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3440 would do in the same situation.
3441 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3442 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3444 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3446 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3447 permissions changed.
3448 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3449 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3450 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3451 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3452 files are treated identically.
3453 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3454 * Minor man page fixes.
3455 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3456 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3457 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3461 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3464 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3465 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3466 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3467 use -X multiple times, too.
3468 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3469 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3473 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3476 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3477 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3481 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3484 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3488 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3491 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3492 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3493 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3494 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3495 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3496 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3497 shape if you're starting a new package.
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3501 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3504 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3508 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3511 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3512 because of missing symlinks.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3516 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3522 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3525 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3526 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3527 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3528 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3529 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3531 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3532 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3536 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3538 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3539 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3540 to be changed after the fact :-)
3541 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3545 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3547 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3548 no version string after the -V.
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3552 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3554 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3555 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3560 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3563 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3567 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3570 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3571 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3572 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3573 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3574 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3575 I always welcome corrections!
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3579 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3585 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3588 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3589 * Documented this new switch.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3593 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3596 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3597 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3598 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3599 no packages use the old behavior.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3603 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3606 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3607 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3611 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3614 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3618 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3624 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3627 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3631 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3634 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3635 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3636 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3640 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3646 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3649 into the source package by accident.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3653 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3656 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3657 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3658 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3659 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3660 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3661 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3666 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3670 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3671 inspired to implement some of it.
3672 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3676 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3679 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3683 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3686 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3687 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3691 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3694 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3695 have done.) (#17598)
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3699 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3705 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3711 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3714 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3718 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3721 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3722 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3726 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3729 argument processor in perl.
3730 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3731 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3732 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3733 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3737 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3740 type directories. (#16933)
3741 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3742 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3743 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3744 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3745 are supported. (#16935)
3746 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3751 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3754 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3758 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3762 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3763 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3764 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3765 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3766 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3767 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3771 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3774 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3775 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3777 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3778 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3779 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3780 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3781 a given package, or -i or -a.
3782 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3783 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3784 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3785 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3786 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3787 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3788 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3789 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3790 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3792 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3793 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3794 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3798 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3801 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3802 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3807 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3810 does not have a section.
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3814 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3817 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3818 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3819 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3823 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Fixed typo #16215.
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3829 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3832 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3833 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3834 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3835 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3836 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3841 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3844 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3845 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3846 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3851 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3857 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3863 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3866 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3867 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3868 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3869 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3870 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3871 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3875 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3881 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3884 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3888 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3891 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3892 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3893 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3897 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3900 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3904 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3910 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3913 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3917 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3920 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3924 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3930 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3933 postinst, postrm, etc.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3937 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3943 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3946 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3947 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3948 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3949 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3950 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3954 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3957 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3958 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3962 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3965 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3969 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3972 installing package files into.
3973 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3978 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3982 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3986 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3992 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3995 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3999 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4002 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4003 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4004 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4005 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4009 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4011 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4012 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4013 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4014 multiple binary packages.
4015 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4016 should rebuild them with this version.
4017 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4021 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4023 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4024 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4028 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4031 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4035 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4038 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4039 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4040 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4041 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4042 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4043 debian/README.debian.
4044 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4045 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4046 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4047 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4048 in a few situations.)
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4052 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4058 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4064 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4067 * Fixed several man pages.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4071 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4074 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4075 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4079 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4082 is ready for general use.
4083 * Added man pages for all commands.
4084 * Multiple binary package support.
4085 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4086 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4087 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4089 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4090 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4091 auto-installed as parameters.
4092 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4094 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4097 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4098 the package build directory it is to act on.
4099 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4100 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4101 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4105 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4107 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4108 ready to replace debstd.
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400